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President Dawood Khan
The remains of Afghanistan's first president, Mohammad Davood Khan, have been reburied in a state funeral in the capital, Kabul on 17 march 2009
I had a visit from Tapa-e-Eskart where Dawood Khan was reburied.
The former leader was gunned down in his palace along with several relatives in a communist-inspired coup in 1978.

The ex-president's remains were identified last year after being found with those of his relatives in two mass graves on the outskirts of Kabul.

Khan, a former prime minister, became president in 1973, after deposing his cousin King Zahir Shah in a bloodless coup.

His murder was followed by 10 years of Soviet occupation, civil war and the rise of the Taliban regime which ruled the country from 1996 to 2001. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the UAE were the only countries that recognized Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Dawood Khan.
When Mohammad Davood took the control, political suffocation in the society was obvious and relative speech and press freedom was banned, however, no one prevented the growth and organization of Communist and leftist groups.
In his first radio declaration, Davood posed the question of Pashtonistan, which obviously seemed to have been subsided, and asked for its independence once more. Consequently, the cold war between Pakistan and Afghanistan went critical, ended to border clashes between the two countries. Pakistan closed down the commodity transportation path to Afghanistan; in the meanwhile, the Russians signed a transportation agreement with Afghanistan government, making foreign trades of Afghanistan dependant to Russia in April 1955. On 15th December, 1956, Bulgalin and Khroshchove two leaders of Kremlin entered Kabul, supporting the position of Afghanistan for Pashtonistan issue and provided Davood Khan Government with $2 million loan. The five year economic program of Afghanistan was put into action under the supervision of Russian experts with reliance upon Russia's aids.
Russia's inordinate control of Afghanistan's economic, military and politics made Zaher Shah improve the relations with Pakistan and United States to keep a balance with the Afghanistan relationships, for this reason, he did not propound the issue of Pashtonistan any more with intercession of Iranian King. The United States declared its willingness to cooperate with Afghanistan by designation of one million and six hundred dollars ($1600000) in 1958(1336LHY) to inaugurate Kabul University. In spite of committing these efforts to improve Afghanistan ties with Pakistan and United States, once more Mohammad Davood Khan posed the question of Pashtonistan in 1962(1340LHY), and the relations between the two countries were disturbed. At the end, internal conflicts and rivalries of the monarch family plus social and political disagreements made Davood Khan resign from the chancellery