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Bareq Shafiei

Died in 2017

Mohammad-Hasan Bareq Shafiei was born in Kabul in 1931, the son of Mirza Mohammad Sharif. An employee, then a journalist, he was deputy editor of Zhwandun in 1962, then edited Pashtun Zhagh, and then Khalq, the newspaper of the People's Democratic Party, of which he was a founding member. After the coup d'état of April 1978, he was Minister of Information and Culture, then Minister of Transport from 1979. He subsequently lived in Germany.

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