Mir Akbar Khyber (Pashto: مير اکبر خيبر) (sometimes spelled Khaibar) (January 11, 1925 – April 17, 1978) was an Afghan left-wing intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). His assassination by an unidentified person or people led to the overthrow of Mohammed Daoud Khan's republic, and to the advent of a socialist regime in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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11 January 1925 Kabul, Afghanistan
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Died |
17 April 1978 (aged 53) Kabul, Republic of Afghanistan
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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