Rasul Amin
Abdul Rasul Amin | |
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رسول امين | |
Born | Abdul Rasul Amin 10 May 1939 Wata Pur District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan |
Died | 31 Oct 2009 , Australia |
Resting place | Kerala, Kunar |
Other names | Amin |
Citizenship | Afghan/Australian |
Education | MA Political Science 1966 Peshawar University |
Occupation(s) | Minister of Education, Professor, Politician, Scholar, Author, Philosopher. |
Years active | 1966-2009 |
Employer(s) | Lecturer Kabul University, English and political science.
Director of Writers Union of Free Afghanistan (WUFA) 1985-2002. Ministry of Education of Afghanistan, Minister of Education 2001-2002. Director of Afghanistan Study Centre, Kabul 2002-2009. |
Spouse | Benazir Amin |
Awards | Best Debater, Scholar of the Year in South Asia,General Secreatary of Khyber Union |
Abdul Rasul Amin (
Early life and academic life
Rasul Amin was born on 10 May 1939 in a culturally diverse area,
In 1955, he went to Peshawar, Pakistan, where he wanted to pursue further more studies and gather his English and Urdu languages. Overall he knew how to speak 4 languages, including Pushto and Dari. After learning the two languages, he got admitted at Forward College and graduated in 1960. In 1960, he was admitted to Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan. He was elected as a General-Secretary of the Khyber Union, (students’ union), in 1962, an unprecedented honour for an Afghan student. In 1963, he was voted the best debater at college. He received a BA in 1964 and a double master's degree in Sociology, English and Political Science in 1966.[2]
Soviet resistance
From 1980 to 1985 he worked with the
Civil war
In 1990 Amin warned, "If the United States cuts or reduces its aid to the Afghan cause, it will be replaced by the Arabs. Afghanistan would not be at peace for a long time". Amin's prediction came true when in the 1990s the US and the Soviets left a power vacuum and a
Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Rasul Amin also played an important role in Rome Conference held in 2001 under the supervision of former king Mohammad Zahir Shah. After the fall of the Taliban regime, Prof. Amin returned to Afghanistan. At the Bonn conference, he was appointed Minister of Education in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan, representing the Rome Group. When the new school year was opened in March 2002, he said: "We have decided to project a new image of ourselves. We have to forget the past if we want to rebuild this country". During his ministry he visited Japan and met with Emperor of Japan.[citation needed]
Amin organised peace conferences, seminars and workshops for Afghanistan. The most famous seminar was in Pearl Continental, Peshawar, Pakistan during 1991, whose chief guest and chair person was Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. American scholar on Afghanistan Louis Dupree and his wife, Nancy Hatch Dupree, were close friends of Amin.[citation needed]
In 2001, Amin became the first Education Minister of Afghanistan. He stated that Afghan girls should be given priority in their education and said, "there was a big task to rebuild his homeland (Afghanistan) education system after 24 years of unrest". That was his "to do" list in his early days as Afghanistan education minister. He was so committed to fulfil his duties. He resigned in 2002. He decided to devote himself fully to the intellectual regeneration of Afghanistan and to Afghan-Pak friendship. The 2004 article "Resolving the Afghan-Pakistan Border Question" is one of many articles by him.[citation needed]
Rasul Amin established the
Rasul Amin travelled all around the world, including to America, Denmark, Switzerland, Iran, Poland, Egypt, India, Germany, France, Rome, the United Kingdom, Africa, Japan, Tajikistan, and Australia. While he was in Egypt, he met with Anwar Sadat. His final destination and favourite place was Melbourne, Australia, where he settled with all of his family members.[citation needed]
Rasul Amin died on 31 October 2009 at 6 AM in
References
- ^ a b "خپروونکی : د لراوبر اداره". larawbar.com (in Arabic). 31 October 2009. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
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