Abdul Qadir (; 14 June 1905, Pabaini

Swabi Swabi (; ) is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located near the bank of the Indus River. It is the 73rd largest city of Pakistan and eighth largest in the province in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Swabi is also a major city in ...

- 22 October 1969) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, academician and founder of

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and Department of Pashto, University of Peshawar.

Education

Abdul Qadir got his matriculation, intermediate and graduation from Islamia College Peshawar in 1927, and masters in English (1929), Arabic (1930), LLB (1931) and BT (1932) from

Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Research university, research university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Kh ...

Career

Qadri started his career in 1942 as an editor of a Pashto magazine "Nan Paron" (Today, Yesterday) then he was appointed in charge of the Pashto section (Middle East) by Patras Bokhari (then director-general) of

All India Radio All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani (), is India's state-owned public broadcasting, public radio broadcaster. Founded in 1936, it operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broa ...

. In the early 50s, he was made '' Vice-Counsel'' and then ambassador in Kabul,

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from Pakistan. From

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Germany, he discovered "'' Khayr al-Bayān''" in 1967 (rare manuscript written by Pir Roshan) the first prose book in Pashto.

Death

Qadri died on 22 October 1969 during a seminar at

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''(modern day

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)''. He is buried in

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

, Pakistan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qadir, Abdul 1905 births 1969 deaths People from Swabi District Islamia College University alumni Aligarh Muslim University alumni All India Radio people Ambassadors of Pakistan to Afghanistan Academic staff of the University of Peshawar Pashto-language literature