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Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan (July 18, 1909 - April 28, 1978) was an Afghani statesman and President of the Republic of.
Daoud discussed rebellion for more than a year with various opposition elements--both moderates and leftists There is general agreement that Daoud had been meeting with what he.
Daoud once removed a bullet from Saddam Hussein's leg and was the flight surgeon on the.
Since coming to power in 1953, Daoud had accelerated the tempo of economic development, believing that without rapid growth Afghanistan would dissolve into factionalism and be divided among its neighbors.
Daoud's receptiveness to Soviet and Chinese aid was particularly troubling.
In July 1973, military units loyal to Mohammed Daoud deposed the king, who was vacationing in Europe, and terminated both the monarchy and the constitution.
Mohammad Zahir Shah reigned as monarch from 1933 to 1973.
Zahir's cousin, Sardar MohammadDaoud, served as his Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963.
Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.
AllRefer.com - Afghanistan - Mohammad Zahir Shah, 1933-73 and Zahir Shah and His Uncles, 1933-53
For his first thirty years on the throne, he accepted the tutelage of powerful advisers in the royal family, first his uncles, later his cousin, MohammadDaoud Khan.
And only in the last decade of his sovereignty did Zahir Shah rule as well as reign unencumbered.
