Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Thomas Barfield

Author:Thomas Barfield [Barfield, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781400834532
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

For all practical purposes this succession contest ended when the British formally recognized Nadir’s regime in mid-November 1929, and began providing him with money and arms to stabilize his government. Six months later he reciprocated by confirming the existing treaties between Afghanistan and Britain.30 He still faced opposition in Afghanistan, however, and during summer 1930 needed to call again on the Pashtun border tribes to put down revolts by the Shinwaris and Kohistanis—the very peoples who had first risen against Amanullah. He also imprisoned and executed many of Amanullah’s liberal supporters, who had remained in the country. After finally putting down the last remnants of opposition against his regime in the north and west, Nadir assembled a loya jirga in September 1931 of 510 members, who approved an official declaration of deposition (khal) that formally abrogated the rights of Amanullah and his heirs on the grounds that he had violated sharia law.31

This proved a timely decision because in November 1933 Nadir was assassinated in a revenge attack and was immediately succeeded by his young son, Zahir Shah, who was to remain king of Afghanistan for the next forty years.

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