Biography
publications
Print
English
- A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan 1863-1901, Brill Publishing House, The Netherlands, 2006
- Afghanistan, The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-82, University of California Press, 1995
- Government and Society in Afghanistan, The Reign of Amir Abd al-Rahman Khan, 1880-1901, University of Texas at Austin, 1979
- Afghanistan, A Study in Internal Political Developments, 1880-96,1971
Pashto
- The Afghan-Soviet War, 2015
- Pashtun, Afghan, Afghanistan, 2011
- My Selected Essays, 2010
- The April Coup of 1978 and its Grave Consequences, 2010
- The July Coup of 1973, The Beginning of Afghanistan’s Long Period of Instability, 2010
- The Reign of King Aman Allah Reconsidered, 2005
- Journey to the Homeland, The Taliban and Islamic Fundamentalism, 2004
- ed., Light and Defense, Essays on the Population, History and Current Affairs of Afghanistan, 1999
- The Geneva Accords, Compromise on Afghanistan, Peshawar, 1988
Dari/persian
- The Second Anglo-Afghan War, National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, 1989
- Afghan and Afghanistan and the Organization of the State in India, Persia and Afghanistan, 1978
translation
Books translated from English into Pashto or Dari.
- On Being Human: Principles of Ethics, by Andrew C. Varga, 2015
- War and Our World, by John Keegan and Two Short Essays by Michael Howard, 2015
- The Classical Ideal of the Good Man by Homer P. Balabanis, 2010
- Reminiscences, A Short History of an Era, 1869-1881 by Mamud Tarzi, 2007
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by Geroge Kneller, 2002
- Afghanistan in War With Russia in 1366,1987
- An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul by M. Elphinstone, 2 vols., 1981, 1984
- The Real World of Democracy by C. B. McPherson, 1971
- What Is History? By E.H. Carr, 1970
- Letters on Literature by M. Gorky, 1961
- The Contemporary World by W. Macneil
- Medieval Europe by S. Painter
- The British Approach to Politics by M. Stewart
article
In English
- The Soviet-Afghan War, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Vols. 1
- An Outline History of Afghanistan, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Vols. 4
- The Taliban, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Vols. 7
- Kabul, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Constitutional History of Afghanistan, Encyclopedia Iranica, Center for Iranian Studies, The University of Columbia, New York, Vol.1, 1992
- Central Asia, The Opening of a Closed Region, Writers’ Union of Free Afghanistan, 1993, Peshawar
- Can They Solve the Afghan Problem? The Wall Street Journal and “Freedom at Issue”, New York, 1988
- The Fall of the Afghan Monarchy in 1973, International Journal of Middle East Studies, No. 9, 1978
- The Pacification of the Hazarars of Afghanistan, “Occasional Paper”, No. 4 The Asia Society, New York, 1973
- Trends in Modern Afghan History in Louis Dupree and L. Albert eds. Afghanistan in the 1970s, Praeger, 1973
- The Reunification of Afghanistan, 1880-1884, Afghanistan (journal) 1970
In Dari and Pashto
Numerous articles published in and out of Afghanistan in news papers, magazines and professional journals on a wide range of subjects ranging from topical commentaries and analysis to scholarly studies, including
- The Durand Agreement Should Have Been Cancelled Long Ago, ( Pashto), Lapa Quarterly, Tsrak Civil and Cultural Association, Jan.Feb.Mar.2007, Number 2,3,4, Vol.6.,pp 2-9,
- Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pashtunistan,