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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on April 28, 2008.

?: britannica and many other pages give April 27 as death date --Ktotam 23:30, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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28th is from the Library of Congress country study. It says:

"On April 27, 1978, a coup d'état beginning with troop movements at the military base at Kabul International Airport, gained ground slowly over the next twenty-four hours as rebels battled units loyal to Daoud in and around the capital. Daoud and most of his family were shot in the presidential palace the following day. Two hundred and thirty-one years of royal rule by Ahmad Shah and his descendants had ended, but it was less clear what kind of regime had succeeded them."

( 22:11, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Afghanistani[edit]

This has been covered in numerous other articles. "Afghan" is the correct term for things or people relating to Afghanistan. Further insertion of "Afghanistani" will be considered vandalism. --Khampalak 18:39, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who are you to make rules around here? This isn't a dictarship here where one person makes the decision, don't make me laugh. However in this case, Afghan is the correct term since he was an ethnic Afghan (Pashtun). -- Behnam 18:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Take your own advice, sag e parchami. I've had enough of your double-talk. --Khampalak 19:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Biased, pro-American propaganda[edit]

Not surprisingly, this English-language article reflects distorted and biased point of view maintained by US government and its "research centers".

Allegations about direct KGB involvement in the events of 1978 are a complete lie spread by US government organisations. Events of 1974-1978 were internal matter of Afghanistan and turned out to be rather unexpected development for Moscow. KGB started to actively get involved only after that.

Remarkably, the article attempts to cover up that Daoud's coming into power in 1973 was the brutal and illegal coup by itself and marked a start of a long-time period of instability in Afghanistan.

Soviet Union had good relations with king Zahir Shah and did not have any intent to destabilize Afghanistan at that time. This destabilizing was in fact inspired by US and UK. Terrible results of US policy are being dealt with till the present time.

The real picture can only be seen after sufficient study into Russian sources, including Russian-language version of the same Wikipedia article.Alexander0807 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:42, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the articel should be improved[edit]

Hi.

I think that there is some information missing about daud khan.

1. The king zahir sha had only his familie memebers in top positions during his regim. Daud was one of them, and because of some of dauds behavoir zahir sha replaced him.

2. Daud Khan replace his cousin Zahir Sha in an undemocratical way when zagir was visiting italy or somewhere. And in his new regim he had his closest familiemembers at the top positions. He was know for his 25 year old plans.. but non of them worked. He lost a lot of the countries money trying to make the ideas coming tru. Not only that he killed and arrested journalists and demonstrators who fought and wanted to bring democrati to the country and thats way he also lost the support of the people.

3. Since he from the begging replaced zahir sha in a undemocratical way, and arrested leaders from khalq and parcham and also activists who fought for democrati.. Daud khan was asked to leave his position. He refused, and there where negotiations going one for a long while. parchamis disrecommended strongly to kill Daud khan and Khalqis agreed, even though that daud khan was ask to leave otherwise he would get killed in an attac. But the leader of Khalq, Afizulla Amin, leaved the negotiations sayin that he was going to toilette. But he went straightly to the army leader and told and ordered him to attac daud and his top men. He told the army leader that it was the decition made during the meeting. Daud Khan and his top men (HIS COUSINS AND OTHER NEAR MEMBERS)got killed. It is very veryyyy wrong to say his "familie" since he himself hired his familie members to his undemocratical goverment. The poeple who got killed where all politicans. When you write: "Daud khan and his familie got killed" it sounds like his childerns, womens and other poeple not beeing involved also got killed which is absolutly not true.

And that was also way khalm and Parcham started to get pissed at eachother. Beacause of Afisulah amin.

It is also importent to note that he nobbed communists because he got cheques from saudis and USA. He then did not any longer needed sovjets support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.227.13.139 (talk) 00:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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the current picture is not Daoud Khan. this is Naim Khan his brother. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:D41:DB20:C874:2907:54A3:EF6D (talk) 13:25, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Public image misses citation.[edit]

There is no citation for this part "During his regime, all controlling position in the government, army and educational institutions were held by Pashtuns" . The first reference from this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadir_Nuristani proofs atleast 2 non pashtuns in his regime.

The content is sourced to Walter 2017, p. 75; however, the excerpt that is available in preview form online shows that whoever added this content to Wikipedia exaggerated the claim made by the author, so your point is well-taken. Regards,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 09:08, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

English[edit]

Hamza 103.215.210.1 (talk) 15:49, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 5 February 2023[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Dane ^talk 01:31, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammed Daoud Khan → Mohammad Daoud Khan – As per native Pashto and Dari languages, his name is more accurately romanized as Mohammad with an 'a'. In the Afghan languages this common name is never pronounced as 'Mohammed'. WR 15:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I support this move due to his ancestors Dost Mohammad Khan being referred to as the correct term. Noorullah21 (talk) 03:47, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.