Abdulhadi Hairan

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Abdulhadi Hairan (Pashto: عبدالهادي حېران) born April 27, 1979[1], in Kanduz, northern province of Afghanistan[2], is a Pashto-speaking Afghan text and photo [3] journalist [4], writer and poet who writes in Pashto, Urdu and English. An autodidact[5], he started work as journalist in 2002 when he joined weekly Roshan-e-Pakistan, Karachi as reporter. He went to Peshawar, Pakhtunkhwa, the North West Frontier province and joined daily "Wahdat", Pashto, as editor and columnist. His column was publishing under the title Haal Da Dai (This is the situation!)[6]

He joined Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), the Peshawar-based Afghan news agency in 2006 as News Editor and worked with a London-based bio-monthly magazine Jirga [7] as Senior News Editor.

As a writer and poet, Abdulhadi Hairan established his career when he started writing on current issues, social problems, short stories and poems in the three languages. His articles are published in newspapers, magazines and websites. His first book, Pakhto pa Internet ke (Pakhto on the Internet), an informative guidebook on Pashto websites, was published in 2006, and second book ['Tanda mey mata shwa]' (The thirst slaked), a collection of short stories, was published in March 2007.

His articles and stories are published on many websites like (English:) Middle East Front [8], Helium [9], Ovi Magazine [10], Groundreport [11], Socyberty [12], Orato [13], (Pashto:) Tolafghan [14], Baheer [15], Taand [16], Khyberwatch [17], etc.

He is young and energetic, and most of his articles discuss the terrorist activities, the problems and the current issues of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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[edit] Madrassa life

Abdulhadi Hairan has studied in a radical Islamic madrassa in Pakistan for 8 years. It was a very strange experience of his early life as he has described it, "The idea of admitting me into a madrassa had come to my father's mind after he returned from his four month Tabligh, a missionary tour. I had learned the Holy Koran during his missionary tour and he was excited very much on hearing this news. On the very same day, he announced that he will admit me into a madrassa for religious education". [18]. After having studied for 8 years, he left the madrassa and managed to learn, first Pashto, then Urdu and then English. He said goodbye to radical Islamic thoughts and became a secular-mind afghan writer and journalist [19].

[edit] From Kanduz to Peshawar

Abdulhadi Hairan was just one year old, the later days of Noor Mohammad Taraki, that his family migrated to Pakistan and lived in a refugee camp in Bajaur Agency tribal area. He was admitted in a madrassa in Dir, then he went to Mardan, and Panjpir and studied madrassa there. He left madrassa study in 1995 and left for Lahore, the capital city of Pakistan. In January 2000, just three months after General Perwez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan, he went to Karachi, the cosmopolitan city of Pakistan. He returned to Peshawar in 2004 and started work with daily Wahdat, Pashto.

[edit] Books

Two Pashto books of Abdulhadi Hairan have been published so far. The first, Pakhto pa internet ke, is a guide about Pashto websites, weblogs, forums, email and online liberaries. It discusses various ways of using the available information about Pashto on the Internet. The second book, Tanda mey mata shwa, is a collection of short stories. Qayoom Marwat, himself a known Pashto short story writer, has described this book as 'the short stories of new themes and topics in Pashto literature) [20].

[edit] References

  1. ^ پېژندګلو
  2. ^ پېژندګلو
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  4. ^ JournalistID: Abdulhadi Hairan
  5. ^ Am I Educated?
  6. ^ پېژندګلو
  7. ^ Jirga Bi-weekly page
  8. ^ Pakistan and the War on Terrorism
  9. ^ Helium user page
  10. ^ List of articles
  11. ^ GroundReport Reporter Page: Abudlhadi Hairan | Hairan
  12. ^ Socyberty :: Abdulhadi Hairan
  13. ^ Abdulhadi Hairan | Orato | True Stories, Citizen News, Eyewitness Reports, Free Notices
  14. ^ پېژندګلو
  15. ^ پېژندګلو
  16. ^ پېژندګلو
  17. ^ پېژندګلو
  18. ^ Memoirs: My life in madrassa
  19. ^ Am I Educated?
  20. ^ د نويو موضوعاتو افسانې

Note:Some links lead to Pashto-script pages.

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