Mohammad Musa Shafiq

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Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq
محمد موسی شفيق
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Preceded byAbdul Zahir
Succeeded byNur Muhammad Taraki
as Chairman of the Ministers of Council
Personal details
Born1932
kabul Province, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Died1979
Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Resting placeUnknown
Political partyIndependent
Alma materAl-Azhar University, Columbia University
OccupationPolitician, poet

Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq (

Mohammed Daoud Khan, but was arrested after the 1978 communist coup d'état
and executed along with many other anti-communist politicians in 1979.

Early life

Mohammad Musa Shafiq was born in

Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
in 1932. Son of prominent Afghan politicians, civil servants and religious leader Mawlawi Mohammad Ibraheem Kamavi.

Education

Mohammad Musa Shafiq was graduated from Kabul Arabic Religious High School. He earned his Master's degree from Al-Azhar University in Egypt after which he earned an additional Master's degree from Columbia University in New York, United States of America.[1]

The last prime minister under the monarchy, Muhammad Musa Shafiq (1972-1973) appeared to many, in both the modernizing government camp and the traditional Islamic camp, to embody the compromise jurist who would ease the problem of shari'a versus statutory law. Shafiq had trained with a mawlawi and then had studied at the Shari'at Faculty, followed by al-Azhar and then Columbia University, where he studied Islamic and comparative law. His career was cut short by the Da'ud coup of 1973, and he was taken from arrest to execution by the Nur Muhammad Taraki regime.

— Ralph H. Magnus & Eden Naby, "Traditional Afghan Islam", Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid (2002)

Prime minister

As Prime Minister, Shafiq supported reforms of the largely conservative society of Afghanistan. He also sought closer ties with the United States and promised a crack-down on opium growing and smuggling. Other than that, he was also responsible for solving the then ongoing water dispute with Iran on diplomatic terms.[2] Shafiq was prime Minister for seven months.

Notes

  1. ^ Biography of Mohammad Musa Shafiq, TasvirAfghanistan.com. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  2. ^ Anderson, Jack (2 March 1973) "The Afghanistan Connection" The Syracuse Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) page 5, column 3