Nur Ahmed Nur نور احمد نور | |
Primeminister: | Nur Muhammad Taraki |
Term Start: | 30 April 1978 |
Term End: | 1978 |
Predecessor: | Abdul Qadir Nuristani |
Birth Place: | Panjwayi, Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Pashtunistan, Afghanistan |
Death Place: | Netherlands |
Party: | People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan |
Office: | Minister of the Interior |
Office1: | 9th Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States |
Successor1: | Mohed Salem Spartak |
Predecessor1: | Abdul Waheed Karim |
Termstart1: | 1980 |
Termend1: | 1981 |
President1: | Babrak Karmal |
Nur Ahmed Nur (Persian: نور احمد نور; –) was an Afghan communist, belonging to the Parcham faction.
Nur was born in 1937 in Kandahar. He graduated from Kabul University in 1961.[1] He was one of four candidates of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan who were elected to the Afghan parliament in 1965. After the overthrow of the Daoud government in April 1978, Nur became Minister for Internal Affairs. In July the same year, Nur was removed from his office and sent to Washington as the new Afghan ambassador to the United States.[2]
Nur was a politburo member of the PDPA and the Secretary of the Central Committee of the party.[2] He died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 87.[3]