According to Afghan journalist and author Daud Junbish, Daud Khan, 68, wanted Abdul Qadeer to brief him on the situation following a government crackdown on the pro-Soviet Marxist Peoples Democratic ...

Nearly half a century ago, a bloodless palace coup in Afghanistan ended more than two centuries of Durrani monarchy in Afghanistan. But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar ...

Afghan guards of honor carry a portrait of Afghanistan's first president, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, during a ceremony to rebury him at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday.

Daoud Khan saw all of the Pashtun tribal regions straddling the two countries' border as part of historical Afghanistan. Pakistan, for its part, felt threatened by this claim.

Khan, Afghanistan’s respected first president, was shot dead in the presidential palace in a communist, Soviet-backed coup on 27-28 April, 1978, almost exactly 30 years ago.

Back in Afghanistan, Daoud Khan signed what amounted to his own death sentence: he ordered the arrest of the same communist leaders who had helped him overthrow the king.

1919: Afghanistan wins independence from nominal British control. 1973: Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan ousts his cousin King Zahir Shah in bloodless coup, becomes a president and declares Afghanistan a ...

The blast detonated at the Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan National Military Hospital, in the 10th district, which houses 400 beds, tweeted Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the Taliban-organized Interior ...

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a commission to find the bodies of ex-president Mohammad Daud Khan and his relatives killed in a 1978 military coup, the government said ON ...