By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
PESHAWAR:The Japan-born Afghan honorary citizen doctor Nakamura alias Kaka Murad,served for more than twenty years on water and rehabilitation projects and built mosques and hospitals, was shot dead along with his four gurards in Jalalabad city on Wednesday December 4,last week.
Doctor Nakamura was on way to a water project in Jalalabad when four gunmen intercepted his vehicle in the crowded Jalalabad city.
Kaka Murad was physician by profession who had devoted his life to help the afghan refugees living in Pakistan. In order to proceed with his honorable services to Afghans, in 1991 he and his colleagues moved to Afghanistan from Pakistan where he along with his colleagues statted a none profitable anf none governmental organization(NGO).He was also running a health recovery center in Jalalabad, city of Nangarhar.
Nakamura was born in 1946 in Fukuoka district of Japan. He was graduated in Medical A physician from Kyushu University of Japan. After his graduation, he started serving Afghan refugees in his first 30’s of his life in Pakistan.
Dadicating life to serve Afghan nation, Kaka Murad had very friendly relations with Pakistanis and Afghan citizens particularly Pashtun ethnicity. Pashtoons not in Afghanistan but those who knew him in Pakistan loved Kaka Murad and considered him their real brother.
Initially, Kaka Murad had hired translator to talk to Pashtoons but later he started learning their Pashtu language. Kaka Murad was a barve man whoes reputation for his bravery carried up till the end of his life.
During the Taliban regime, Nakmura won the confidence of Taliban and kept operating his medical services in the Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan. Kaka Murad wrote several articles regarding his experience with Taliban in Japanese language which was published in newspapers and author of several books.
Confronting readers with positive images of Muslims in Afghanistan he changed the stereotype ideology of people abroad about the concept set by others across the glob.
Kaka Murad’s publications and speaking with Japanese helped him collecting donations and supporting his endeavours.
A Japani daily Japantoday published after 9/11 said when the United States attacked Afghanistan and all roads were blocked by US forces at that time doctor Nakamura raised three million dollars to distribute wheat and cooking oil to starving families in Kabul.
During his stay in Jalalabad he realized that the severe drought was the biggest cause of diseases that affect residents’ life. His opinion was that a number of people died of severe drought.He also worked as doctor to save lives.
Kaka Murad always used say that his life in the region taught him that medical services and emergency aid alone cannot alter the basic equation of poverty. He then discovered a new techniques of treatment by displacing the droughtiness in the drought area.
Kaka Murad then started digging canal to irrigate the drought-lands to help nearly 2.5 million villagers to become revitalize and self-sufficient.
Once Nakamura had said that “A doctor treats patients one by one, but this technique would help a whole village, so, I love seeing a village that’s been brought back to life.” (Japan Today, 2019).
In 2008 one of his Japanese colleagues, Kazuya Ito, who was an agricultural specialist, working on the construction and irrigation canal projects in Kuz Kunar district of Afghanistan was abducted by unknown people and later got killed.
Despite many challenges and risk of life Kaka Murad worked inside a war-torn Ningrahar province of Afghanistan for more than twenty years.
He had decided to continue his work and complete the canal project by himself which later changes the area into lush forests and productive wheat farmland.
Kaka Murad,as a game changer, worked for Afghan nation above from his social ideological and faith differences.
He never thought of his religion identity and constructed two hospitals and two mosques for Muslim people in Afghanistan.
Because of his loyalty, love wi
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