Rasul Amin

Abdul Rasul Amin (Pashto: رسول امين; 10 May 1939 – 31 October 2009) was an Afghan politician, lexicographer, academic, writer, and former education minister.

Rasul Amin was born on 10 May 1939 in a culturally diverse area, Wata Pur District of eastern Kunar Province.

Due to the bad government, he was forced to depart with Ghazi Mir Zaman Khan to Herat and Mazar-e Sharif.

He initially worked with the Afghan intellectual Professor Seyyed Bahauddin Majrooh at the Afghanistan Information Centre (AIC).

The AIC became a mouthpiece of liberal Afghan intellectuals linked to the resistance but drew the wrath of the fundamentalist factions.

[citation needed] In 1990 Amin warned, "If the United States cuts or reduces its aid to the Afghan cause, it will be replaced by the Arabs.

"[4] Rasul Amin also played an important role in Rome Conference held in 2001 under the supervision of former king Mohammad Zahir Shah.

At the Bonn conference, he was appointed Minister of Education in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan, representing the Rome Group.

The most famous seminar was in Pearl Continental, Peshawar, Pakistan during 1991, whose chief guest and chair person was Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.

Prof.Rasul Amin served as the Minister of Education from 2001 to 2002 in the interim Transitional Administration under President Hamid Karzai.

[1] Rasul Amin travelled all around the world, including to America, Denmark, Switzerland, Iran, Poland, Egypt, India, Germany, France, Rome, the United Kingdom, Africa, Japan, Tajikistan, and Australia.