Abdul Karim Misaq

Abdul Karim Misaq was a writer, politician and former Minister of Finance of Afghanistan.

Abdul Karim Misaq, born in 1937 in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, was from an ethnic Hazara family. After graduating in 1965, he became a member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. He later became a member of the party's bureau and served as Afghanistan's finance minister during the reigns of Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin from 1978 to 1979. He was first appointed as minister of finance after Saur Revolution in May 1978.

Abdul Karim Misaq was the mayor of Kabul for one year in 1989, then took refuge in London in 1990. He has authored about 20 books in the fields of fiction, poetry, history and politics.

Abdul Karim Misaq died on Saturday, April 16, 2016 in London at the age of eighty due to Parkinson's disease.