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Mohammad Zahir Shah [a] (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.
Afterwards the Barakzai dynasty regained power, eventually transformed the Emirate into the Kingdom of Afghanistan in 1926, and ruled the country (with an interruption in 1929) until the last king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was deposed in the 1973 coup d'état, led by his first cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan.
King Zahir Shah's cousin, Daoud Khan, signed a $3 million arms deal with the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and a 32.5 million arms deal with the Soviet Union in 1956. The deal gave the Afghan military imported T-34 tanks and MiG-17 jet fighters. A quarter to third of all Afghan officers had trained in the Soviet Union by 1973. [5]
The 1973 Afghan coup d'état, also called by Afghans as the Coup of 26 Saratan (Dari: کودتای ۲۶ سرطان) [4] and self-proclaimed as the Revolution of 26 Saratan 1352, [a] [5] was led by Army General and prince Mohammad Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the ...
Mohammed Zahir Shah, was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted by a coup in 1973, he belonged to the Mohammadzai tribe Sardar Abdul Khaliq Khan Telai, Prof. PhD (Sorbonne), Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UN , Pioneer of Physics in Afghanistan.
Shah (king) Saddozay dynasty of Popalzay: 8 May 1839 to 5 April 1842: Shuja Shah Durrani: 2nd Term 1841 to April 1842: Mohammad Zaman Khan Mohammadzay (regent) In rebellion Emirs: Saddozay dynasty of Popalzay: 29 June 1842 to 12 October 1842: Fath Jang Khan: 12 October 1842 to December 1842: Shahpur Khan: Mohammadzay dynasty of Barakzay ...
1961 Postage Stamp of Nadir Shah Mohammed Nadir Khan, King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933. Nadir Khan was born on 9 April 1883 in Dehradun, British India, in the Musahiban branch of the Royal dynasty of Afghanistan (of the Mohammadzai section of Barakzai Pashtuns). His father was Mohammad Yusuf Khan, and his mother was Sharaf Sultana Hukumat ...
This coup overthrew the Kingdom of Afghanistan and established the Republic of Afghanistan in its place, which was a single-party state. General Daoud had been forced to resign as prime minister by King Zahir a decade earlier. [4] The King abdicated the following month rather than risk an all-out civil war. [4]