Sherzaman Taizi was Pashtun

Pashtun people

Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

 writer, poet, intellectual and journalist.

Born in Pabbi, Nowshera District

Nowshera District

Nowshera is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan - the principal city is Nowshera. Nowshera District is divided into 47 Union Councils and 5 provincial seats....

, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP), British India. Taizi served in the Army Service Corps as a clerk (1949–1954), Intelligence Bureau of the Government of Pakistan, Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

, (1954–1977), as Liaison Officer Afghan Refugees Commissionerate, Peshawar (1979–1980), UNHCR (Protection Officer and Programme Officer; 1980–1991), daily the Frontier Post, Peshawar (Assistant Editor; 1991–1995) and BBC

BBC

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 Education Project at Peshawar (Editor of the New Home New Life - a trilingual magazine; 1996–1997). Later he was attached to the Tribal Women Welfare Association as vice-chairperson and editor-in-chief of its bilingual quarter Neway Zhwand (New Life).

During his service in the Intelligence Bureau, Taizi spent more than 15 years in tribal areas, having stayed in every tribal agency, and more than seven years in the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Having done his M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in Pashto, Taizi did his PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 from the Area Study Centre, Peshawar University. His thesis in English is related to “the Saur Revolution

Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution is the name given to the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan takeover of political power from the government of Afghanistan on 28 April 1978. The word 'Saur', i.e...

 (1978) – the Communist Revolution

Communist revolution

A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism, typically with socialism as an intermediate stage...

 that took place in April 1978”.

Literary figure

In Pashto literary circles Taizi is still known as Ghamzhan, although he has long given up that nom de plume and instead uses his family name Taizi.

Published books in Pashto

• Warsho (poetry),
• Soma (poetry,
• Gulpana (drama),
• Shpelae (short stories),
• Gul Khan (novel),
• Amanat (novel),
• Rahman Koroona (novel),
• Ghunday (novel),
• Wade o’ n’ sho (novel),
• Nara Zheba (research article on Pashto language),
• Novel: Hunan au Safar (research article on characteristics of novel)
• Da Pukhto Leekdod: Yao Sarsari Jaj (research article on Pashto script)
• Suqut-e-Afghanistan (Translated into Pashto from English – The Fall of Afghanistan by Samad Ghaus).

Published books in English

• Polar Bear (Tr. From Pashto poetry of Mohammad Hasham Zamani),
• The Pukhtun’ Unity (From Pashto – Qami Wahdat by Mohammad Afzal Khan, a former federal minister),
• Abad Khan: The Lost Ring of the Chain (Tr. From Urdu by Anwar Khan Deewana),
• Rahman Baba: the Outstanding Painter of Thoughts,
• The Saur Revolution (Research article on the Communist Revolution that took place in Afghanistan in 1978),
• Afghanistan: From Najib to Mojaddedi (booklet in two volumes),
• Afghanistan: A Clash of Interests,
• Afghanistan: Two Governments and Three Capitals,
• Afghanistan: Drug Menace in Central Asia,
• Afghanistan: Landmine Menace in Afghanistan
• Bare-foot in Coarse Clothes (translated from Dari; by Dr. Hassan Sharq, a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan)
• Bacha Khan in Afghanistan,
• Terrorist Attacks in USA and US Attack on Afghanistan.
• Secret Plans and Open Faces (Tr. from Pashto; Pate Tautiye, Barbande Tsere by Hikmatyar)
• Dispute between Iran and Afghanistan on the issue of Hirmand River (Tr. from Persian: by Gholam-Reza Fakhari, Tehran; 1993)
• Nights in Kabul (Tr. from Dari by General Umarzai)
• Causes of the Fall of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under Ustad Rabbani in Kabul (Tr. from Dari: by Syed ‘Allam-ud-Din Atseer)
• General Elections in Afghanistan 2005.