Taher Badakhshi was a cultural and political personality in Afghanistan.
14 Facts About Tahir Badakhshi
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Taher Tahir Badakhshi was born in Fayzabad, Badakhshan to a native Tajik family, originally from Ishkashim, His father is a Tajik and his mother was from Uzbek ethnic of Argo District.
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Tahir Badakhshi completed his primary studies in the province Badakhshan, and then moved to Kabul for continuing his higher education, he completed high school at Habibia School at 1957.
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Tahir Badakhshi entered the University of Kabul and studied economics and law.
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Tahir Badakhshi completed his studies on economics at 1961 and started to work.
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Tahir Badakhshi had worked in the research department of the University till 1967.
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Tahir Badakhshi was kept in solitary confinement at Pole-charkhi prison and had to undergo massive torture by the secret service of the regime and, finally was murdered in prison by Hafizullah Amin in 1979.
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Tahir Badakhshi began contacting a broad circle of urban intellectuals with activities in the field of culture and politics.
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Tahir Badakhshi was connected in long lasting friendship to the avant-garde intellectuals like the university professor, poet, linguist Wasef Bakhtari and the novelist and historian Azam Rahnaward Zariab, who were the primary sources of the contemporary poetics and fiction of Persian literature in Afghanistan.
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Tahir Badakhshi was actively involved and proactive in literary and intellectual circles of Kabul.
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Tahir Badakhshi was a co-ordinator of the first congress of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the first main leftist democratic party in Afghanistan.
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Tahir Badakhshi left the party in 1967 after the membership of Hafizullah Amin who had a suspected prehistory of ethno-centric chauvinist activities in the south of the country and recently returned from the United States.
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Tahir Badakhshi arranged a circle named "Mahfele Entezar" movement and later the "Revolutionary Organisation of Workers of Afghanistan" or SAZA Political movement, speaking out for the basic political rights for all citizens and for improvement of economic and educational conditions of the people.
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Tahir Badakhshi came because of his opposition to the system into political detention many times in his life, for days, weeks or multiple months: during the times of King Zahir Shah, during the first republic of Muhammad Daoud.