1917 - 1984
Mayor of Kabul, 1948 - 1954.
Born in Kabul in 1917, Ghulam Muhammad Farhad was educated in Kabul and Germany and trained as an engineer. Twenty years after being elected mayor of Kabul, he was elected to the Afghan parliament (1968). He was an active member of the Afghan socialist party Afghan Nation and was the publisher of a newspaper of the same name (1966 - 1967).
Bibliography
Adamec, Ludwig. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan, 2d edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
— GRANT FARR
