Mir Akbar Khyber

Mir Akbar Khyber
مير اکبر خيبر
Editor of the Parcham
In office
1968–1969
Personal details
Born(1925-01-11)January 11, 1925
Logar, Afghanistan
Died17 April 1978(1978-04-17) (aged 53)
Kabul, Afghanistan
Political partyPeople's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Mir Akbar Khyber (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.