Muhammad Gul Khan Mohmand

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Muhammad Gul Khan Mohmand (b. 1885) was the Minister of Interior of Afghanistan in the 1930s appointed by Mohammed Nadir Shah. Mohmand was a fierce Pashtun nationalist.[1] Mohmand enforced a central government policy of political and cultural discrimination against non-Pashtuns.[2] He was also assigned as "special envoy to northern Afghanistan"[2] where he pushed for Pashtunization of the region (i.e. settling Pashtuns, often by force, in the north).[3] Other schemes of Pashtunization included changing the lingua franca of the region from Persian to Pashto.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tapper, Nancy (1991). Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. United States: Cambridge University Press, 331. ISBN 0521381584.  "Despite fiercely pro-Pashtun sentiments, Muhammad Gul Khan refused to countenance the oppression perpetuated by the Khans. He balanced the domination of Durrani from Kandahar by introducing many more eastern Pashtuns to the area (especially as landowners between Aqcha and Balkh), and he appears to have dealt fairly with petitions against the Nazarzai brought by Uzbeks and Aymaks from throughout the Saripul region and its hinterland." p. 34
  2. ^ a b Necipoglu, Gulru (2002). Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. BRILL. ISBN 9004125930.  p. 87
  3. ^ Hamayoun Baha's article on the Pashtunist policies during Nadir and Zahir Shah's rule
  4. ^ Byron, Robert (1982). The Road to Oxiana. United States: Oxford University Press, 320. ISBN 0195030672. 


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