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Sulaiman Layeq

Died in 2020

Sulaiman Layeq, born Ghulam Mujaddid on 12 October 1930 in Sharana, in Paktika, studied in Kabul and became a journalist there; until 1965 he headed the educational and literary department of Radio Afghanistan. After the revolution of 1978, he was minister of radio and television, presided over the Academy of Sciences and from 1981 to 1989 held the ministry of tribes and frontiers. He lived in Germany from 1992 and died there on 31 July 2020.

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