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Macleans.ca
November 19, 2009
It was rediscovered in 1961 when a local peasant showed a stone fragment to Afghan King Zahir Shah, who was hunting in the area. The king recognized the ...
Independent
November 19, 2009
When Mr
Karzai entered the Great Hall of the Presidential Palace accompanied by the former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, he received a standing ovation. ...
Reuters
November 19, 2009
The last King of
Afghanistan, Zahir Shah was overthrown while abroad by his cousin, Mohammad Daud Khan, in 1973, kickstarting three decades of civil war. ...
USA Today
November 18, 2009
It was popular in the 1960s, under
King Zahir Shah, when it was played under government sponsorship. The
Taliban, which banned nearly every other form of ...
The News International
November 16, 2009
Peshawar's recent misfortunes started in the 70s when Sardar Mohammad Daud became
Afghanistan's president after overthrowing his cousin and
King Zahir Shah ...
Pacific Free Press
November 6, 2009
... regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah. ...
Peace and Conflict Monitor
November 5, 2009
In the King Zahir Shah
Foreign Affairs
November 5, 2009
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... clans, villages and families against one another, but, from at least the end of King Zahir Shah's reign, has violently and savagely pitted the urban, ...
PRESS TV
November 1, 2009
...
WA today
October 30, 2009
Professor Flint regrets the fall of the Nepalese house; chides America for the "serious error" of not restoring King Mohammed Zahir Shah of
Afghanistan; ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 30, 2009
Professor Flint regrets the fall of the Nepalese house; chides America for the "serious error" of not restoring King
World War 4 Report
October 29, 2009
10 profile on RFE/RL informs us that Abdullah was born in
Kabul to a
Pashtun father who was appointed to the Senate by
Afghanistan's last king
The AtlanticWire (blog)
October 27, 2009
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Christian Science Monitor
October 26, 2009
The son of a senator who served during the reign of
King Zahir Shah âÂÂ"
Afghanistan's last period of
peace âÂÂ" Abdullah was an eye surgeon before the Soviet ...
Times of India
October 20, 2009
According to
officials, while
Afghanistan was represented by Mustafa Zahid, the grandson of former king Mohammed Zahir Shah, the environment minister of ...
Desicritics.org
October 16, 2009
... relatively progressive, stable and strong,
Afghanistan might revert to the sort of
peace it had when it was ruled by
King Zahir Shah from 1933 to 1973. ...
Columbia Daily Tribune
October 13, 2009
It was the 37th year of King Mohammad Zahir Shah's golden age of constitutional reform. Three years later, his 40-year reign ended in a coup that continues ...
Euromoney Magazine
October 12, 2009
... from
Kabul to a thousand tribal areas and foreign destinations âÂÂ" since 1931 when the
market was set up by a cousin of King Mohammad Zahir Shah. ...
CBS News
October 1, 2009
Huffington Post (blog)
September 30, 2009
It wasn't supposed to be this way, but according to an Afghan human rights expert, Sima Wali, who represented King Zahir Shah at the Bonn conference in 2001 ...
Gulf Times
September 26, 2009
Shaheed claims he was a victim of police bungling and says his family -cousins of
Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, who was deposed in 1973 - would never ...
Times Online
September 25, 2009
A period of relative tranquillity came with the accession of King Zahir Shah in 1933. He was deposed in 1973, leading to another period of political ...
This is London
September 25, 2009
Mr Shaheed claims he was a victim of police bungling and says his family -cousins of
Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, who was deposed in 1973 - would ...
Boise Weekly
September 23, 2009
... 2002 loya jirga (grand assembly) to choose the new head of state,
Karzai got his US masters to lean on his main rival, former king Mohammed Zahir Shah. ...
Aljazeera.net
September 21, 2009
"During the reign of Zahir Shah [the former king], it didn't occur to me that I should be aware of my gender at all," recalls Gailani, sitting in the garden ...
Seattle Times
September 18, 2009
The longest resident of the palace compound was King Zahir Shah, who ruled for some 40 relatively peaceful years until he was ousted in 1973. ...
Columbia City Paper (blog)
September 16, 2009
... 2002 loya jurga (grand assembly) to choose the new head of state,
Karzai got his US masters to lean on his main rival, former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah. ...
The Palestine Telegraph
September 12, 2009
His father was an aide to
King Zahir Shah, who ruled the country until 1973. Khalilzad was a graduate
student at the
University of Chicago, an intellectual ...
New York Times
September 11, 2009
Ansar Rahel, a lawyer, advised King Mohammad Zahir Shah's loya jirga committee. Jon Krakauer is the author of "Into Thin Airâ and the forthcoming "Where Men ...
Pakistan Observer
September 7, 2009
It has to be mentioned that from
King Zahir Shah to president Najibullah all rejected the
Durand Line and supported centrifugal forces demanding ...
Washington Post
August 31, 2009
... left, an Afghani prince and former president of
Afghanistan, known for his progressive policy after ousting his cousin
King Zahir Shah. ...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
August 24, 2009
Prince Mohammed Nadir Khan became King and consolidated power while reactivating the country. His son Mohammad Zahir Shah succeeded him, ruling for 40 years ...
Aljazeera.net
August 20, 2009
Both his father and
grandfather served in the government of Mohammad Zahir Shah, the former king, until 1973. After the Soviet invasion in 1979, ...
CNN International
August 19, 2009
The country was ruled by a king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, from 1933 to 1973. Though a monarch, some say Zahir Shah tried to spread the power in
Afghanistan. ...
CNN
August 19, 2009
The country was ruled by a king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, from 1933 to 1973. Though a monarch, some say Zahir Shah tried to spread the power in
Afghanistan. ...
Aljazeera.net
August 19, 2009
As the brother of the late Queen of
Afghanistan, and a cousin of the late
King Zahir Shah, some felt Assefi might have been scapegoated by a fringe group ...
The Australian
August 18, 2009
The former king, Zahir Shah, held the honorary title of Father of the Country until his death in July 2007. It was an important counter-weight to the ...
New York Times
August 18, 2009
It was understandable, then, that
Pashtun leaders tried to make the last king, Zahir Shah, the president of the interim government that ruled from 2002 ...
New York Times
August 17, 2009
It was understandable, then, that
Pashtun leaders tried to make the last king, Zahir Shah, the president of the interim government that ruled from 2002 ...
