Sardar Shah Wali Khan

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.

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

• Commander of Royal Bodyguard in 1906
• Commander of Cavalry Corps in 1921
• Equerry to King Amanullah in 1924
• Commander-in-chief of the army that defeated Habibullah Kalakani (also known as Bacha-ye Saqqow) and captured Kabul on 10 October 1929, for which he received the titles of Ghazi and Fateh-e-Kabul ("Conqueror of Kabul").
• Viceroy to King Nader Shah in 1929
• Acting Minister for Defence from 1935 to 1936
• Acting Prime Minister from 1936 to 1937
• Ambassador to Pakistan from 1948 to 1949.

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