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	Background Notes Archive - Near East and North Africa
		Daoud's Republic (1973-78) and the April 1978 Coup Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions caused by the severe 1971-72 drought, former Prime Minister Daoud seized power in a military coup on July 17, 1973.
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Nur Muhammad Taraki, Secretary General of the PDPA, became President of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the newly established Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/sa/afghanistan9407.html (5506 words)

	Lord Lemar Legacy
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud was born in 1909 and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from July 1973 until his assassination in April 1978 as a result of the Saur Uprising.
		Ten years later Mohammed Daoud staged a coup against his cousin, King Zahir, and in July 1973 proclaimed Afghanistan a republic.
		Some of the officers who participated in Daoud's coup d'etat belonged to the Parcham fraction.
	groups.msn.com /LordLemarLegacy/heroes.msnw (5506 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mohammed Daoud Khan
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan[1] (July 18, 1909 â“ April 28, 1978) was an Afghan statesman and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of a revolution led by the quasi-Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
		Daouds Republic (July 17, 1973- April 28, 1978) The welcome Mohammed Daoud Khan received on returning to power on July 17, 1973 reflected the citizenrys disappointment with the lackluster politics of the preceding decade.
		Mohammed Zahir Shah (born October 16, 1914) was the last King of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mohammed-Daoud-Khan (641 words)

	Lord Lemar Legacy
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud was born in 1909 and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from July 1973 until his assassination in April 1978 as a result of the Saur Uprising.
		Ten years later Mohammed Daoud staged a coup against his cousin, King Zahir, and in July 1973 proclaimed Afghanistan a republic.
		In January 30, 1977, President M. Daoud convened the Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly), to approve the draft of a new constitution and in February of that year he was sworn in and the Loya Jirga dissolved.
	nl.msnusers.com /LordLemarLegacy/heroes.msnw (947 words)

	Mohammad Daoud. Who is Mohammad Daoud? What is Mohammad Daoud? Where is Mohammad Daoud? Definition of Mohammad Daoud. Meaning of Mohammad Daoud.
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan (July 18, 1909 - April 28, 1978) was an Afghani statesman and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of a revolution led by the quasi-Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
		Khan and most members of his family were assassinated on April 28, 1978 a day after the commencement of the Marxist revolution that established the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Khan was known for his progessive policies especially in relation to the rights of women and for initiating two five-year modernization plans (1956 - 1961 and 1962 - 1967) when he served as Prime Minister under King Zahir and a seven-year plan in 1976 when he was President.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Mohammad_Daoud (947 words)

	Mohammed Daoud Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan (July 18, 1909 - April 28, 1978) was an Afghani statesman and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of a revolution led by the quasi-Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
		Khan and most members of his family were assassinated on April 28, 1978 a day after the commencement of the Marxist revolution that established the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Khan was known for his progessive policies especially in relation to the rights of women and for initiating two five-year modernization plans (1956 - 1961 and 1962 - 1967) when he served as Prime Minister under King Zahir and a seven-year plan in 1976 when he was President.
	www.phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=Mohammad_Daoud (947 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Daoud Khan declared Afghanistan a republic, calling the coup a "national and progressive revolution," and then declared himself president.
		Daoud Khan was killed, along with his wife and children, in the Saur revolution of 1978 that brought Afghanistan's communists to power.
		Daoud Khan saw all of the Pashtun tribal regions straddling the two countries' border as part of historical Afghanistan.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/C54C8897A30996BF87256D67005DCC84?OpenDocument (1028 words)

	Mohammed Daoud Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On July 17, 1973, Khan seized power from his cousin King Zahir and proclaimed Afghanistan a republic.
		Khan and most members of his family were assassinated on April 28, 1978 a day after the commencement of the Marxist revolution that established the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Khan was known for his progressive policies especially in relation to the rights of women and for initiating two five-year modernization plans (1956–1961 and 1962–1967) when he served as Prime Minister under King Zahir and a seven-year plan in 1976 when he was President.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daud_Khan (158 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Daoud Khan was killed, along with his wife and children, in the Saur revolution of 1978 that brought Afghanistan's communists to power.
		Daoud Khan declared Afghanistan a republic, calling the coup a "national and progressive revolution," and then declared himself president.
		Legal scholars say Afghanistan's 1964 constitution specifically forbade members of the royal family from holding cabinet posts in order to prevent Daoud Khan from regaining office.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/C54C8897A30996BF87256D67005DCC84?OpenDocument (158 words)

	Afghanistan (08/05)
		Nur Muhammad Taraki, Secretary General of the PDPA, became President of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the newly established Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Afghanistan is endowed with natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, and precious and semiprecious stones.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm (158 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Daoud Khan was killed, along with his wife and children, in the Saur revolution of 1978 that brought Afghanistan's communists to power.
		Daoud Khan saw all of the Pashtun tribal regions straddling the two countries' border as part of historical Afghanistan.
		Daoud Khan declared Afghanistan a republic, calling the coup a "national and progressive revolution," and then declared himself president.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/C54C8897A30996BF87256D67005DCC84?OpenDocument (158 words)

	Hafizullah Amin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the death of Mohammed Daoud Khan in 1978 the PDPA gained power with Nur Mohammad Taraki becoming President of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and secretary general of the PDPA while Amin and Babrak Karmal became deputy prime ministers.
		Amin returned to Afghanistan in 1965 to join the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), he became a prominent member of the marxist Khalq (People) faction.
		An attempt to institute Marxist-Leninist reforms provoked widespread resistance and a number of violent revolts, in February 1979 the U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs was killed.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hafizullah_Amin (376 words)

	asia
		Zahir Shah was eventually overthrown by a coup in 1973 led by his cousin and former Prime Minister, General Sardar Mohammed Daoud (one of the architects of the reform programme) and Afghanistan was declared a republic.
		However, the new ruling party, the pro-Soviet People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), was deeply split between the rival Khalq (People) and Parcham (Flag) factions.
		Taliban doctrine – as decreed by the movement’s reclusive leader Mullah Omar Mohammed – is notable for its doctrinaire nature and rigid adherence to a draconian interpretation of sharia Islamic law.
	www.bunty.cwc.net /afghanistan.htm (2700 words)

	Afghanistan: History Of 1973 Coup Sheds Light On Relations With Pakistan
		Daoud Khan was killed, along with his wife and children, in the Saur revolution of 1978 that brought Afghanistan's communists to power.
		Daoud Khan saw all of the Pashtun tribal regions straddling the two countries' border as part of historical Afghanistan.
		Daoud Khan declared Afghanistan a republic, calling the coup a "national and progressive revolution," and then declared himself president.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/07/mil-030718-rfel-161140.htm (2700 words)

	27 Dec History: This Date
		He was Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan, a non-Communist who had taken power in 1973 by overthrowing his cousin King Mohammad Zahir, abolishing the monarchy, and proclaiming himself the president of the Republic of Afghanistan in July 1973).
		1979 President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan, Soviet puppet in office for 3 months (since the 14 September 1979 coup in which he murdered his predecessor puppet Noor Mohammad Taraki), is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, and replaced by Babrak Karmal, considered to be a more subservient puppet.
		The USSR moves massive troops into Afghanistan, intervening in what was until then a civil war between the Soviet puppet government and anti-Communist guerillas.
	ojourdui.ifrance.com /history/h4dec/h4dec27.html (2700 words)

	INTRODUCTION Afghanistan Intelligence Agencies
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Nur Muhammad Taraki, Secretary General of the PDPA, became President of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the newly established Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Zahir's cousin, Sardar Mohammad Daoud, served as his Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/afghan/intro.htm (2439 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Near East and North Africa
		Daoud's Republic (1973-78) and the April 1978 Coup Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions caused by the severe 1971-72 drought, former Prime Minister Daoud seized power in a military coup on July 17, 1973.
		Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of coal, salt, chromium, iron ore, gold, fluorite, talc, copper, and lapis lazuli.
		Although informal negotiations for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan had been underway since 1982, it was not until 1988 that the Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the United States and Soviet Union serving as guarantors, signed an agreement settling the major differences between them.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/sa/afghanistan9407.html (5506 words)

	Mohammed Daoud Khan
		Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan (Afghani statesman and President of the Republic of Afghanistan from Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
		Broadly, it is the practical science of preventing and curing diseases.
	www.med-help.info /?p=Mohammed+Daoud+Khan (169 words)

	CQ Press : Current Events In Context : Terrorism
		The coup plotters announced the formation of the Marxist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the appointment of Nur Mohammad Taraki, secretary general of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, as prime minister.
		Daoud was overthrown April 27, 1978, in a left-wing military coup.
		In July 1973 Mohammad Zahir Shah was overthrown by military officers who, in league which a small but restive middle class, blamed the king for a failing economy, recurrent famine, and insufficient political reforms.
	www.cqpress.com /context/articles/wepl_afghan.html (818 words)

	Ruby Rae Complete
		Within a year, however, he had been assassinated and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan proclaimed, headed by a revolutionary council, whose first President was Nur Mohammad Taraki.
		In 1992 Mujahidin guerrillas overthrew the Communist government of Mohammad Najibullah and proclaimed the Islamic State of Afghanistan.
		In 1953 General Mohammad Daoud Khan seized power and was Prime Minister until 1963, during which time he obtained economic and military assistance from the Soviet Union.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /malburns/Archives/Knowledge/afganistan.txt.html (551 words)

	1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - Sima Samar
		For their part, many Islamists fled to Pakistan after the coup staged in 1973 by former prime minister Daoud, who abolished the monarchy, proclaimed the Republic of Afghanistan, and installed himself as president and prime minister.
		Daoud stressed modernization, including infrastructure development and the promotion of higher education, and he fostered the growth of a new generation of university graduates exposed to Western ideas.
		Dramatically, and in the face of protest by conservative mullahs, Daoud also opened new public spheres to women, such as office and factory work, and challenged the belief that purdah and the chadri were required by Islam.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographySamarSima.htm (8373 words)

	ICB Online Crisis Summary: AFGHANISTAN INVASION
		The last King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir, was overthrown in a coup on 17 July 1973; and a republic was proclaimed by his first cousin and brother-in-law, Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had served as Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963.
		A revolutionary council took power in the new Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (the DRA), with three leaders representing competing factions on the left of the Afghan political system: Mohammad Taraki, leader of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), as President; Babrak Karmal as Vice-President; and Hafizullah Amin as Deputy Prime Minister.
		From the outset the new left-wing rulers of Afghanistan relied upon the Soviet Union for funds to cover the payroll of civil servants, and for a commitment to support the new regime during a critical period in the modern history of Afghanistan.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /icb/crisis_summary.asp?id=303 (1067 words)

	Loya jirga
		1977, January -- approved the new constitution of Mohammed Daoud Khan establishing one-party rule in the Republic of Afghanistan.
		The first was based in Rome around Mohammed Zahir Shah, and it reflected the interests of moderate Pashtuns from southeastern Afghanistan, the same ethnic group from which the Taliban draws much of its support.
		1964, September -- a meeting of 452 called by Mohammed Zahir Shah to approve a new constitution.
	www.ukpedia.com /l/loya-jirga.html (475 words)

	Prime Minister of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The office was abolished in 1973 when Mohammad Daoud, a former Prime Minister, deposed the king in a coup and established a republic ruled by Daoud, who got the title of President.
		The Prime Minister of Afghanistan is a currently vacant post in the country.
		Until August 1997, the government which the Taliban had ousted, which remained in rebellion until the end of the Taliban in 2001 had a Prime Minister in the government, but that office was abolished in 1997.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Afghanistan (475 words)

	Afghanistan—Who's Who
		In 1973, Daoud deposed the king and proclaimed a republic.
		Afghanistan's location between India, Persia, China, and the steppes of Central Asia has led to a history dominated by invasion.
		An ethnic Pashtun from the city of Kandahar, Karzai is leader of the powerful 500,000-strong Populzai clan, which has supplied Afghanistan's kings since 1747.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/afghanistan1.html (475 words)

	The History of Afghanistan
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Daoud's alleged support for the creation of a Pashtun state in the Pakistan-Afghan border area heightened tensions with Pakistan and eventually resulted in Daoud's dismissal in March 1963.
		Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions created by the severe 1971-72 drought, former Prime Minister Daoud seized power in a military coup on July 17, 1973.
	www.factrover.com /history/Afghanistan_history.html (475 words)

	Afghanistan - Background
		In 1973 the monarchy was abolished and a republic established by Mohammad Daoud Khan, who as a cousin and brother in law of the deposed king was a senior member of the royal family.
		A few days later the Revolutionary Council (RC) of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, a body dominated by civilian leaders of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), assumed power.
		By the late 1890s the two imperial governments had determined Afghanistan's northern and eastern boundaries and had been instrumental in fixing the western boundary with Iran.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/cs-introduction.htm (2596 words)

	History of Afghanistan
		Nur Muhammad Taraki, Secretary General of the PDPA, became President of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the newly established Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Afghanistan 's recent history is a story of war and civil unrest.
	infotut.com /geography/Afghanistan (2596 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : P/PR/PRE
		Pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan Islamic conquest of Afghanistan Durrani Empire European influence in Afghanistan Reforms of Amanullah Khan and civil war Reigns of Nadir Shah and Zahir Shah Daoud's Republic of Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Afghan..
		Pre- and perinatal psychology is the study of the psychological implications of the earliest experiences of the individual, before (prenatal) and during (perinatal) childbirth.
		The Pre-Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4550 million years ago (the time of the initial formation of the Moon) to 3920 million years ago, when the Nectaris Basin was formed by a large impact.
	pardus.info /browse.php?title=P/PR/PRE (10843 words)

	Afghanistan (08/05)
		Nur Muhammad Taraki, Secretary General of the PDPA, became President of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the newly established Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
		Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
		Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world; mine-related injuries number up to 100 per month, and an estimated 200,000 Afghans have been disabled by landmine/unexploded ordinances (UXO) accidents.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm (6852 words)

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