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Dr Sher Zaman Taizai has won the national civilian award, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, for his literary services

PESHAWAR: Noted writer, poet, intellectual and journalist Dr Sher Zaman Taizai has won the national civilian award, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, for his literary services and contribution to Pashto language and literature.

Born in Pabbi town of Nowshera district in NWFP, Dr Sher Zaman served in the Army Service Corps as a clerk, Intelligence Bureau of the Government of Pakistan, Peshawar as liaison officer, Afghan Refugees Commissionerate, Peshawar and protection officer/programme officer, UNHCR.

He served daily The Frontier Post, Peshawar as assistant editor; and remained editor of BBC education project  New Home New Life  a trilingual magazine. He is now attached to the Tribal Women Welfare Association as vice-chairperson and editor-in-chief of its bilingual quarterly, Neway Zhwand (New Life).

Having done his MA in Pashto, Sher Zaman Taizai did his PhD from the Area Study Centre, University of Peshawar. In Pashto literary circle, he is still known as Ghamzhan, although he has long given up that nom de plume and instead uses his family name Taizi, and is considered the best novelist. His knowledge in English as research scholar, particularly in Afghan affairs, has been acclaimed internationally.

His publications in Pashto include Warsho and Soma (poetry); Gulpana (drama); Shpelae (short stories); Gul Khan, Amanat, Rahman Koroona Ghunday and Wade onsho (novel); Nara Zheba (research article); Hunar au Safar (research article on characteristics of novel); Da Pukhto Leekdod: Yao Sarsari Jaj (research article on Pashto script); Kabul me Bya Oleedo (travelogue) and Suqut-e-Afghanistan (translated from English).

Dr Taizais contribution to English include Polar Bear (translation from Pashto poetry), The Pakhtuns Unity (from Pashto), Abad Khan (translation from Urdu), 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 (first part), Afghanistan: A Clash of Interests, Afghanistan: Two Governments and Three Capitals, Afghanistan: Drug Menace in Central Asia, Afghanistan: Landmine Menace in Central Asia, Osama bin Laden and Terrorist Attacks on USA (article); Central Asia, Journal; Area Study Centre  Russia, China & Central Asia, Barefoot 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 (translation from Pashto; Pate Tautiye, Barbande Tsere by Hekmatyar), Dispute between Iran and Afghanistan on the issue of Hirmand River (translated from Persian: by Gholam-Reza Fakhari, Tehran, 1993), Nights in Kabul (translated from Dari by General Umarzai), Causes of the Fall of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under Ustad Rabbani in Kabul (translated from Dari: by Syed Allam-ud-Din Atseer), General Elections in Afghanistan; Central Asia, journal; Area Study Centre  Russia, China & Central Asia, Winter 2005, The Jirga System in Tribal Life; Area Study Centre and Taliban: Assessed by the Afghan intellectuals; Area Study Centre 2007.

Taizai translated into English the publications like My Life and Struggle by Abdul Ghaffar Khan (autobiography), Story of My Life by Professor Jehanzeb Niaz (autobiography) and Da Ghairat Chagha (Call of Honour) by Ajmal Khattak (poetry) besides contributing hundreds of articles, mostly on Afghanistan, Pashtun life and culture and Pashto literature, and book reviews in Pashto, Urdu and English to national dailies and periodicals.

As recognition of his literary services, Dr Sher Zaman Taizi was awarded the prestigious Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on March 23, 2009. He has already received Nobel Peace Prize Certificate in 1981 when he was serving as protection/programme officer with UNHCR at Peshawar.
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