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Sher Zaman Taizi

Died in 2009

Sher Zaman Taizi (3 November 1931 - 22 December 2009) was born in Pabbi, in the district of Nowshera, then in British India and now in Pakistan. A clerk in the army, then twenty-three years in intelligence, he spent more than fifteen years in the tribal areas and seven at his country's embassy in Kabul, before working for ten years with Afghan refugees. He ended as a journalist and presided over a Pashtun literary society. A doctor in Pashto, he left thirty-two titles in that language and in English: novels, short stories, verse and translations.

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