Ahmad Shah Abdali

The founding father of the modern day Afghanistan, he is known as Ahmad Shah Baba among Afghans. He was born in 1722 in Herat. He served as a commander in Nadir Shah's army. After Nadir Shah's death, he took control of the area he was commanding. He was elected the King of Afghanistan by an assembly of Pashtun chiefs in 1747. During his reign, Ahmad Shah Baba invaded India eight times in a quest to bring more territory under his empire's control. Ahmad Shah Baba's empire extended from eastern Persia to Northern India and from Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean. He died on April 14, 1772 and was buried in Kandahar, the capital of his empire. AHMAD SHAH, the founder of the Durrani monarchy, rose from the mere character of a partisan, to a distinguished command in the service of the Persian conqueror; Nadir Shah. Of the family of the Saddozis, and chief of the tribe of Ahdali, the most illustrious family of the Afghans, he was, in his youth, imprisoned in a fortress, with his elder brother Zulfikar Khan, by Husain Khan, governor of Kandahar for the Ghalzis, which powerful tribe of Afghans, after overrunning the whole of Persia, had, a few years previously, trodden the throne of the sufis in the dust, and conquered that mighty empire.

 

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