The Afghan king had gone to Britain for medical treatment in the summer of 1973 when the events leading to Daoud Khan's coup began unfolding. By 17 July 1973, while Zahir Shah and his family were ...

But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan appoint himself president and declared Afghanistan a republic by deposing his cousin, King Zahir Shah, was the trigger ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s last king, a symbol of unity who oversaw four decades of peace before a 1973 palace coup ... Daoud Khan declared a republic with himself as president. Zahir ...

He was the second son of Zahir Shah, the last reigning king of the Barakzai dynasty, who was ousted in a coup in July 1973 while in Rome for cataract eye surgery. The usurper, Mohammed Daoud Khan ...

Afghanistan entered the 20th century under the rule of his descendant Abdur Rahman Khan ... When Zahir Shah was deposed in1973 in a bloodless coup perpetrated by his cousin Mohammed Daoud ...

When the former King Zahir Shah returned to Afghanistan ... took over the country in a coup in 1978, deposing autocratic prime minister Mohammed Daoud Khan – the man who had gotten rid of ...

With the king enjoying thermal baths on an island in southern Italy, Daoud Khan declared a republic with himself as president. Zahir Shah abdicated to avoid bloodshed, ending a 300-year-old dynasty.

Mohammad Zahir Shah, 92, the king of Afghanistan who emerged ... In the aftermath, he called for the resignation of Gen. Mohammed Daud Khan, a cousin and brother-in-law who had spent the previous ...

He gathered from his fellow soldiers that they had just buried Afghanistan’s first president, Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan ... Mohammad Zahir Shah, in a coup in 1973, but it was his own ...

A former prime minister, Mr Daud became president in 1973, after deposing King Zahir Shah in a virtually bloodless coup. Correspondents say Mr Khan is remembered for his efforts to counter the ...