Nur Ahmed Nur

Nur Ahmed Nur (Persian: نور احمد نور; 1937 (1937) – (2024-01-04)4 January 2024^{[citation needed]}) was an Afghan communist, belonging to the Parcham faction.

Nur Ahmed Nur نور احمد نور
Nur in 1978
Minister of the Interior
In office 30 April 1978 – 1978
Prime Minister	Nur Muhammad Taraki
Preceded by	Abdul Qadir Nuristani
9th Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States
In office 1980–1981
President	Babrak Karmal
Preceded by	Abdul Waheed Karim
Succeeded by	Mohed Salem Spartak
Personal details
Born	1937 (1937) Panjwayi, Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Pashtunistan, Afghanistan
Died	4 January 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 86–87)[citation needed] Netherlands[citation needed]
Political party	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Nur was born in 1937 in Kandahar. He graduated from Kabul University in 1961.^[1] He was one of four candidates of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan who were elected to the Afghan parliament in 1965. After the overthrow of the Daoud government in April 1978, Nur became Minister for Internal Affairs. In July the same year, Nur was removed from his office and sent to Washington as the new Afghan ambassador to the United States.^[2]

Nur was a politburo member of the PDPA and the Secretary of the Central Committee of the party.^[2] He died on 4^{[citation needed]} January 2024, at the age of 87.^[3]

References

1. Adamec, Ludwig W.; Adamec, Ludwig W. (1979). First supplement to the Who's who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 3-201-01113-4.
2. Frank Clements and Ludwig W. Adamec (2003). Conflict in Afghanistan. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781851094028. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
3. نور احمد نور، وزیر داخله پیشین افغانستان درگذشت (in Persian)

Political offices
Preceded by Abdul Nuristani	Minister of the Interior 1978	Succeeded by Unknown