sentences:  Mahmud Tarzi, Abdul Sabur Ghafory, Muhamad Yusof and Shaeq Jamal were perhaps the most notable satirists during the period 1873-1965.The period from 1965 to 1978 was the most productive, when different types of satire emerged and flourished in Afghanistan.In addition, an even larger amount of the same kind of work was imported from Iran.