Name Nabi Misdaq Role Author | Books Afghanistan | |
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Education London School of Economics and Political Science | ||
Ashna tv interview with dr nabi misdaq on 2014 afghan elections
Dr. Nabi Misdaq (Pashto: نبي مصداق) is an author and a journalist in Afghanistan. He was the founder and head of the Pashto Section at BBC World Service in the early 1980s. In 2015, by special decree, and under the 64th article of the constitution, President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, named Dr. Nabi Misdaq as his new Media Affairs advisor.
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- Ashna tv interview with dr nabi misdaq on 2014 afghan elections
- Voa pashto intrvw dr nabi misdaq afghan elections 2014
- Origins and education
- Career
- References
Voa pashto intrvw dr nabi misdaq afghan elections 2014
Origins and education
Misdaq is from the Zazi tribe of Pashtuns, in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan. He went to the United Kingdom on a scholarship in the early 1960s. Misdaq has a BS.c. Hon. from London School of Economics and M.A. and Ph.D. from Sussex University. He has written several books ("Afghanistan", Routledge, 2003), academic papers in English. Recently he finished a Pashto-English dictionary which is due to be published. In the meantime, he is writing a book which contains Afghan jokes translated into English. He is also the author of many articles widely for Afghan exile press in both Pashto and Dari (Persian) over the years.
Career
Misdaq worked for the BBC World Service at Bush House throughout the 1980s and 1990s, where he founded the Pashto Section, and broadcast regularly, becoming one of the best known voices in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He twice interviewed the exiled Afghan King Zahir Shah in Italy.