Sardar Shah Wali Khan Explained

Shah Wali Khan
Birth Date:April 16, 1888
Death Date:April 1977
Nationality:Afghan
Rank:Field Marshal
Battles:Third Anglo-Afghan War
Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
Basmachi movement
Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
Office1:Commander of Royal Bodyguard
Term Start1:1906
Office2:Commander of Cavalry Corps
Term Start2:1921
Office3:Equerry to King Amanullah
Term Start3:1924
Office4:Commander-in-Chief
Term Start4:1929
Office5:Viceroy to King Nader Shah
Term Start5:1929
Office6:Acting Minister for Defence
Term Start6:1935
Term End6:1936
Office7:Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan
Term Start7:1936
Term End7:1937
Office8:Ambassador to Pakistan
Term Start8:1948
Term End8:1949
Allegiance: Kingdom of Afghanistan
Branch: Royal Afghan Army
Honorific Prefix:Field Marshal

Field Marshal Sardar Shah Wali Khan (Pashto: سردار شاه ولی خان) (April 16, 1888  - April 1977), also known as Field Marshal Sardar Shah Wali Khan Ghazi, was a political and military figure in Afghanistan. He was a member of the Musahiban and an uncle of both King Zahir and President Mohammed Daoud Khan. He was a full brother of Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan, King Mohammad Nadir Shah and paternal half-brother of Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Khan.[1] [2]

He was the father of Lieutenant-General Abdul Wali Khan, cousin and senior power behind the throne of King Zahir during the 1963-1973 constitutional period and throughout their exile.

Career

Notes and References

  1. Book: Dupree, Louis . Afghanistan . Princeton University Press . 1980 . 475, 498.
  2. Web site: Afghanistan History . https://web.archive.org/web/20051026233327/http://www.afghanan.net/afghanistan/nadirshah.htm. usurped. October 26, 2005.