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Celebrations are held in Kabul in honour of the twenty-first birthday of King Zahir Shah, as also of the anniversary of the restoration of the dynasty by Nadir Shah.The king gives a dinner to the diplomatic corps and the prime minister, and entertains leading local residents and foreigners.
Mohammad Zahir Shah (Pashto/Dari: محمد ظاهر شاه ; 15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. [2] Ruling for 40 years, Zahir Shah was the longest-serving ruler of Afghanistan since the foundation of the Durrani Empire in the 18th century.
AR8096-K5 September 1963Dinner in honor of King Mohammad Zahir Shah of Afghanistan.Please credit "Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston" Author: Abbie Rowe. Scanned from original 8x10 file print on DAMS7 by EG: JPEG file comment: AR8096-K 5 September 1963
An agreement, virtually amounting to a trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, is concluded between the Afghanistan National Bank and the Soviet Trade Agency, by which arrangements are made for the barter of commodities between the two countries, with imports and exports balancing at a value of 10,500,000 gold dollars over a three-year period beginning on June 1.
Illustration of the first state dinner at the White House. David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant.. A state dinner in the United States is a formal dinner held in honor of a foreign head of state, such as a king, queen, president, or any head of government.
His son Mohammed Zahir Shah, a youth of 19, is immediately proclaimed king, and receives the allegiance of his three uncles, Mohammad Hashim Khan, the prime minister, Faiz Mohammad Khan, the minister for foreign affairs, and Shah Mahmud Khan, the minister of war, and of the rest of the ministry, the Ulemas, and the tribal leaders. Kabul soon ...
Zahir Shah also took a special tour of the United States, visiting Disney Land in California, New York and other places. Habibullah Karzai, uncle of Hamid Karzai who served as representative of Afghanistan at the United Nations, is also believed to have accompanied Zahir Shah in the course of the King's state visit. [14]
A third possible candidate was Zahir Shah, former king of Afghanistan until 1973. He had spent years living in Rome but had returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime. Already at the Bonn Conference which installed the interim administration there was a group of supporters of Zahir Shah, called the Rome-group, who wanted to ...