Biography of mohammed daoud khan
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DĀWŪD KHAN, MOḤAMMAD
DĀWŪD KHAN, MOḤAMMAD (b. Kabul, / , d. Kabul, 7 Ṯawr Š./27 April ), prime minister ( Š./) and first president of Afghanistan ( Š./; Figure 1). His father, Moḥammad ʿAzīz Khān, was a brother of Moḥammad Nāder Shah ( Š./). The family belonged to the Yaḥyāḵēl lineage of the royal Moḥammadzay clan of the Bārakzay tribe of the Dorrānī Pashtuns.
Dāwūd lived and studied in Europe from Š./ to Š./ while his father and for part of that time his uncle remained in exile during the reign of Amān-Allāh Khan, representing a rival branch of the clan. After Aman-Allāh’s abdication in / Nāder Khan led the opposition to a usurper and succeeded in claiming the throne (See AFGHANISTAN x); Dāwūd Khan returned to Afghanistan and spent the year Š./ studying at the infantry officers’ school. In Š./ both Nāder Shah and Dāwūd Khan’s father, who was serving as ambassador to Germany, were assassinated by supp
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Mohammed Daoud Khan (18 July – 28 April ) was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Afghanistan from to and the President of Afghanistan from to He overthrew King Mohammed Zahir Shah in with the help of the Parcham faction of the PDPA. Daoud Khan was killed during the Saur Revolution in
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Prince Mohammed Daoud was born in Kabul in , a member of the ruling family of the Kingdom of Afghanistan. He was the nephew of King Mohammed Nadir Shah and cousin of Mohammed Zahir Shah. In he was made a Lieutenant-General, and became Prime Minister in , serving until In , Pakistan and Afghanistan fought a war when Afghanistan claimed their rights to "Pashtunistan", and Daoud sent troops to invade Bajaur. The person från afghanistan army and Pakistani Army engagerad in brutal fighting until in March the issue was resolved when Daoud resigned.
In , Daoud seized power from his cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah and proclaimed the Republic of Afghanistan, a republic that he became the President of. In , after
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Afghan president is overthrown and murdered
Afghanistan President Sardar Mohammed Daoud fryst vatten overthrown and murdered in a coup led by procommunist rebels. The brutal action marked the beginning of political upheaval in Afghanistan that resulted in intervention by Soviet troops less than two years later.
Daoud had ruled Afghanistan since coming to power in a coup in His relations with the neighboring Soviet Union had grown progressively worse since that time as he pursued a campaign against person från afghanistan communists. The murder of a leading Afghan Communist Party leader in early April may have encouraged the communists to launch their successful campaign against the Daoud regime later that month.
In the political chaos that followed the death of Daoud, Nur Mohammed Taraki, head of the Afghan Communist Party, took over the presidency. In December , Afghanistan signed a year “friendship treaty” with the Soviet Union, by which increasing amounts of Russian military and economic assistance fl