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'{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sharifi Abdul Zahir | honorific-suffix = | image = | office1 = [[House of the People (Afghanistan)|Speaker of the House of People]] | term_start1 = 1961 | term_end1 = 1968 | predecessor1 = [[Mohammad Nawroz Khan]] | successor1 = [[Mohammad Omer Wardak]] | order2 = [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] | monarch2 = [[Mohammad Zahir Shah]] | term_start2 = 9 June 1971 | term_end2 = 12 December 1972 | predecessor2 = [[Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi]] | successor2 = [[Mohammad Musa Shafiq]] | birth_date = 3 May 1910 | birth_place = [[Laghman Province|Laghman]], [[Afghanistan]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|10|21|1910|5|3}} | death_place = [[Kabul Province|Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]] | party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] | spouse = Quraisha | children = [[Ahmad Zahir]], [[Zahira Zahir]], Asif Zahir, Belqiss Zahir }} '''Abdul Zahir''' (3 May 1910 — 21 October 1982) was [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] in the early 1970s, during the reign of King [[Mohammed Zahir Shah|Zahir Shah]]. He was an ethnic Tajik born in the [[Laghman Province]] of [[Afghanistan]].<ref> Mohammad Sediq Farhang. خاطرات میر محمد صدیق فرهنگ (2016 ed.). shahmbookco. p. 363 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWPXiQzWkAEavcH?format=jpg&name=large</ref><ref>Tolo Tv Documentary 1:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVMTdPwdF4o&t=150s</ref><ref> Close friend and Biographer استاد صفی الله ثبات https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPGamLSWSPI</ref> He attended secondary school in [[Kabul]] and university in the [[United States]], earning an [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] from [[Columbia University]] and a [[Master's degree]] in public health from [[Johns Hopkins University]]. Zahir became a medical doctor and returned to Afghanistan to practice medicine, but eventually entered [[Politics of Afghanistan|politics]]. His political positions included terms as Minister of Health, Speaker of [[House of the People (Afghanistan)|House of the People]] from 1961 to 1968,<ref name="wolesiyirgahistory">{{cite web|url=http://wolesi.website/media/files/the_history_of_parlaiment.pdf|title=A glance of the History of Assemblies of Afghanistan|date=25 January 2019|publisher=Wolesi Yirga}}</ref> and Ambassador to [[Italy]] and [[Pakistan]]. Most prominently, he served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan from June 1971 to December 1972. A few months after resigning, [[Mohammed Zahir Shah|King Zahir Shah]] was overthrown and Abdul Zahir retired from politics. Zahir was married to Quraisha and had four children. His son [[Ahmad Zahir]] was a popular musician who died in a car accident in 1979. His daughter [[Zahira Zahir]] is a [[hairdresser]] in [[Washington, DC]].<ref name=NewYorkTimes20030320> {{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/world/kabul-journal-the-afghan-elvis-lives-24-years-after-his-death.html?pagewanted=all | title= Kabul Journal; The Afghan Elvis 'Lives' 24 Years After His Death | work=[[The New York Times]] | author=Amy Waldman | date=20 March 2003 | accessdate=2008-02-03 }}</ref><ref name=NationReview20050920> {{cite news | url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/thomson200509200821.asp | title=Above & Beyond: Profiles of Afghan commitment | publisher=[[National Review]] | author=John R. Thomson | author-link=John R. Thomson | date=20 September 2005 | accessdate=2008-02-03 }}</ref><ref name=CnnZahiraZahir20011202> {{cite news | url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/02/sm.04.html | title=The Life of the President's Barber | publisher=[[CNN]] | date=2 December 2001 | accessdate=2008-02-03 }}</ref> His eldest son, Asif Zahir (1932—2000) was also politically active during his lifetime as Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in 1980s and he remained ambassador in [[Kuwait]] (1989—1992) and Italy (1992—1993). He resigned from his post and lived in [[Peshawar]], [[Pakistan]], where he started a campaign for peace in Afghanistan by setting up a political group called the Afghan National Movement (ANM). His youngest daughter, Belqiss Zahir is currently living in Germany and runs a beauty salon. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070819073013/http://www.zahiraschools.org/background.html Zahira's School - My Story] {{start box}} {{s-off}} {{Succession box | before = [[Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi]] | title = [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] | years = 1971 &ndash; 1972 | after = [[Mohammad Musa Shafiq]] }} {{end box}} {{AfghaniPrimeMinisters}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zahir, Abdul}} [[Category:Ambassadors of Afghanistan to India]] [[Category:1910 births]] [[Category:1983 deaths]] [[Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni]] [[Category:Afghan Tajik people]] [[Category:Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni]] [[Category:Prime Ministers of Afghanistan]] [[Category:Afghan diplomats]] [[Category:Afghan expatriates in Pakistan]] [[Category:Government ministers of Afghanistan]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Pakistan]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Kuwait]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Afghanistan to Italy]] [[Category:Speakers of the House of the People (Afghanistan)]]'