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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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Mohammad Zahir Shah was king during the tribal revolts of 1944–1947. According to Alexander Davydov, causes of the revolts lay in the worsening conditions of farmers. [ 7 ] Farmers and landlords were required to forfeit one-third of their harvest to the government, a practice referred to as sekoti . [ 8 ]
I attended one of Dolly Parton's famous dinner shows, Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud.. My party of two spent $165 on the multicourse, two-hour dining experience. The dinner show was very ...
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.
Humaira Begum was the daughter of Sardar Ahmad Shah Khan, brother of the royal consort Mah Parwar Begum and Minister of the Royal Court, and his first wife Zarin Begum, who was cousin of King Amanullah Khan and eldest daughter of General H.E. Loinab Khush Dil Khan, Governor of Kabul and Kandahar.