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.