1. Abdul Rasul Amin was an Afghan politician, lexicographer, academic, writer, and former education minister.
18 Facts About Rasul Amin
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Rasul Amin was born on 10 May 1939 in a culturally diverse area, Wata Pur District of eastern Kunar Province.
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Rasul Amin was son of a Ghazi Mohammad Amin Khan of Mamond tribe.
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Rasul Amin Father was a nephew of Ghazi Mir Zaman Khan.
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Rasul Amin was raised as an orphan because his mother died when he was 5 years old.
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Rasul Amin received a BA in 1964 and a double master's degree in Sociology, English and Political Science in 1966.
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Rasul Amin initially worked with the Afghan intellectual Professor Seyyed Bahauddin Majrooh at the Afghanistan Information Centre.
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On 21 March 1985, Rasul established the Organization Writers Union of Free Afghanistan, which, as the AIC, was supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, USIS, the Asia Foundation, and the Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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Rasul Amin's prediction came true when in the 1990s the US and the Soviets left a power vacuum and a civil war broke out where the warring factions were all supported by one of Afghanistan's neighbouring countries.
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Rasul Amin played an important role in Rome Conference held in 2001 under the supervision of former king Mohammad Zahir Shah.
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In 2001, Rasul Amin became the first Education Minister of Afghanistan.
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Rasul Amin stated that Afghan girls should be given priority in their education and said, "there was a big task to rebuild his homeland education system after 24 years of unrest".
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Rasul Amin decided to devote himself fully to the intellectual regeneration of Afghanistan and to Afghan-Pak friendship.
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Rasul Amin established the Afghanistan Study Centre in Kabul as the successor of the Writers Union of Free Afghanistan which was Established in 1985 in Peshawar Pakistan.
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Rasul Amin served as the Minister of Education from 2001 to 2002 in the interim Transitional Administration under President Hamid Karzai.
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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.
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Rasul Amin died on 31 October 2009 at 6 AM in Melbourne, Australia from pancreatic cancer.
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Rasul Amin wanted to be buried next to Sayyed Jamaluddin Afghani's grave at Kabul University, but with no permission from the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, he was buried in Kerala, Kunar with a State Funeral from the Government of Afghanistan.