Abdul Qadir (academician)

Maulana Abdul Qadir (; born 14 June 1905), in Pabaini Swabi. He was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, academician and founder of Pashto Academy and Department of Pashto, University of Peshawar.
Education.
Maulana Abdul Qadir got his matriculation, intermediate and graduation from Islamia College Peshawar in 1927, and masters in English (1929), Arabic (1930), LLB (1931) and BT (1932) from Aligarh Muslim University.
Career.
He started as an editor in 1942 of a Pashto magazine "Nan Paron" (Today, Yesterday). Then he was appointed in charge of the Pashto section (Middle East) by Patras Bokhari (then director-general) of All India Radio. In the early 50s, he was made "Vice-Counsel" and then ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan from Pakistan. From University Library of Tübingen Germany, he discovered "Khairul Bayan" in 1967 (rare manuscript written by Pir Roshan) the first prose book in Pashto.
Death.
on 22 October 1969 he passed away during a seminar at Rajshahi in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He buried in Peshawar Pakistan