“Pakistan began its jihad policy between 1973 and 1974, after Mohammad Daoud Khan ousted the popular King Zahir Shah,” she writes. “At that time, Pakistan's civilian autocrat, ...

Mohammed Daoud Khan’s constitution was radically different from the late King Mohammed Zahir Shah’s constitution, as Daoud Khan attempted to establish a strong republican system after ending the ...

Zahir Shah sent his uncle, Sardar Shah Wali Khan, ... SARDAR DAOUD OVERTHROWS ZAHIR SHAH. ... Daoud and his family were murdered in a coup by officers belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party ...

Chafed Afghanistan’s Amir Abdur Rahman: “This poor goat, Afghanistan, is a victim at which a lion on one side and a terrible bear from the other side are staring and ready to swallow.” ...

Mohammed Zahir Shah reigns as king from 1933 to 1973, pursuing a policy of neutrality. 1973 - Mohammed Daoud Khan deposes the king in a bloodless coup and becomes Afghanistan's first president.

Leaders of the Islamist movement in Afghanistan, scholar Ijaz Ahmad Khan has recorded, were, in turn, granted safe haven in Peshawar after the 1973 coup. Figures like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Burhanuddin ...

The overthrow of King Mohammed Zahir Shah by Gen. Mohammed Daoud Khan leads to the ... Afghanistan plunges into internal conflict as political power struggles culminate in a communist coup.

Fifty years ago, on July 17, 1973, Daoud Khan, the strongman of the Afghan royal family, who had also served as the country’s Prime Minister for a decade beginning 1953, staged an almost bloodless ...

Afghanistan's US-installed democracy collapsed after 20 years of US-led modernization and reform attempts.

Fifty years ago, Afghanistan was proclaimed a republice in a swift palace coup which overthrew the monarchy and the regime of King Zahir Shah June 11, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...