Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in the village of Zaida , Swabi in NWFP in Pakistan in 1897. He was the son of Awal Khan and his grandfather was Mohammad Ali.
Nisae Yousafzai was a war hero of Pukhtoonkhwa who played a significant role in the creation of Tajikistan. A decorated soldier of the Third Anglo Afghan war (1919). Nisar would take part in a Soviet expedition and later lobby for the creation of a Tajik SSR within the USSR, Nisar would serve as Tajikistan’s first Minister of Educastion from 1926 until his murder in 1937.
The story of Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai was featured by Kabul Magazine in the 1960s by chief researcher of the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences at Kabul University, Dost Shinwari under the name Nisar Muhammad Afghan.
Keep in mind, another son of the Punjab who introduced modern education in Afghanistan, and made Habibia schools a success storey for Afghanistan.
written by: Khalid Orakzai
