- Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi
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Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi Prime Minister of Afghanistan In office
01 November 1967 – 09 June 1971Monarch Mohammad Zahir Shah Preceded by Abdullah Yaqta (Acting) Succeeded by Abdul Zahir Personal details Born February 22, 1921
Kandahar, AfghanistanDied 1979 (aged 57–58) Political party Independent Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi (February 22, 1921 - August 1979) was an Afghan diplomat and politician.
Etemadi was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He served as ambassador to Pakistan for the first time from 1964 to 1965. He was appointed foreign minister in 1965 and became Prime Minister of Afghanistan on November 1, 1967. Due to a failure to improve the stagnating economy,[1] he lost both positions on June 9, 1971 and became ambassador to Italy. Unlike many politicians who were prominent under the rule of Zahir Shah, Etemadi remained in the government after the 1973 coup in which a republic was established under the rule of Mohammed Daoud Khan. Etemadi left Italy and served as ambassador to the Soviet Union until 1976. He then served as ambassador to Pakistan until the Communist coup of 1978.
Etemadi returned to Afghanistan and was arrested by the Communist government. In 1979, along with many other officials in the Zahir Shah and Daud Khan governments, including several other former prime ministers, Etemadi was executed.
References
- ^ Golenpaul, Dan; Ann Golenpaul (1997). Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook. United States: McGraw-Hill. http://books.google.com/books?id=3mYwAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1.
Political offices Preceded by
Abdullah Yaqta
ActingPrime Minister of Afghanistan
1967 – 1971Succeeded by
Abdul ZahirPrime Ministers of Afghanistan since 1929 Kingdom Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan · Mohammed Daoud Khan · Mohammad Yusuf · Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal · Abdullah Yaqta · Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi · Sharifi Abdul Zahir · Mohammad Musa ShafiqDemocratic Republic Republic Islamic State Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani · Gulbuddin Hekmatyar · Arsala Rahmani · Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai · Gulbuddin HekmatyarIslamic Emirate Categories:- Prime Ministers of Afghanistan
- Executed politicians
- Executed Afghan people
- People executed by Afghanistan
- 1921 births
- 1979 deaths
- People from Kandahar
- Government ministers of Afghanistan
- Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Pakistan
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