Nur Ahmed Nur Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Adamec . Ludwig W. . Adamec . Ludwig W. . First supplement to the Who's who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . 1979 . Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt . Graz, Austria . 3-201-01113-4.
  2. Book: Frank Clements and Ludwig W. Adamec . Conflict in Afghanistan . 2003. 9781851094028. 24 March 2009.
  3. https://www.afintl.com/202401076404 نور احمد نور، وزیر داخله پیشین افغانستان درگذشت