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M. Khalid Roashan

Mohammed Khalid Roashan (b. 1923), an Afghan journalist and public official, edited the Kabul daily Anees, headed the Bakhtar News Agency, led the Department of Tribal Affairs with cabinet rank (1965–67), served as Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and helped draft the 1964 constitution. After leaving Afghanistan in 1979 he settled in Kirkland, Washington, where he wrote the memoir Afghanistan, My Ancestral Home.

Journalist and memoirist16 pieces

Memoir

My Ancestral Home

16
  1. Preface

    Before the first chapter

  2. First Adventure Out

    Chapter 1

  3. Weapons and I

    Chapter 2

  4. School

    Chapter 3

  5. With The Nomads

    Chapter 4

  6. My Special Friend “F”

    Chapter 5

  7. Bamian

    Chapter 6

  8. Arranged Marriage

    Chapter 7

  9. The Ameer

    Chapter 8

  10. Our Homes

    Chapter 9

  11. Involuntary Employment

    Chapter 10

  12. Student Again

    Chapter 11

  13. Government Service

    Chapter 12

  14. Bakhtar News Agency

    Chapter 13

  15. Cabinet Post

    Chapter 14

  16. Years of Change

    Chapter 15