Mohammad Enam Wak

Mohammad Enam Wak, born in 1954, is a researcher in political science and has written a number of books. In 1998 his book "The Ethnic Composition of Afghanistan" was published in Pashto by the Sapi Centre for Research and Pashto Development (SCPRD); an English version of this book was published in 1999 by Dr Bazger in Khatiz Organisation for Rehabilitation (KOR). In 1999 he published "Afghanistan Crisis: the Third Alternative" in collaboration with Bazger. He has also published another book in English entitled "Afghan Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism". Wak is the author of an unpublished survey, based on interviews with some 1,000 Afghans living in Pakistan, which reportedly shows strong support for the establishment of a national government in Afghanistan led by the former Afghan king Zahir Shah.

Afghan writer and researcher Mohammad Enam Wak following an attempted assassination, apparently in connection with a book he had just published a book written in which he debated the formation of a state on the basis of ethnic identity. On 1 June 2000, unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Wak at his home in the city of Peshawar, northern Pakistan. Wak was reportedly shot twice in the right arm and once in the abdomen. The shooting appears to have been triggered by the publication in late May 2000 of a book written by Wak entitled "Afghanistan Federalism", in which he debated the formation of a federal Afghan state on the basis of ethnic identity. The book reportedly debated unification of the Pashtun communities on either side of the Afghan-Pakistani border, and it is thought this may have unsettled both anti-Federation groups in Afghanistan and local authorities in the North West Frontier Province (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in Pakistan.

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