Thursday, July 26, 2007

The king is dead: In Afghanistan, a final farewell to the end of a line

Zahir Shah "gave up absolute monarchy in 1964, after which [Afghanistan's] first parliament was established under a new constitution." In time, many observers would regard him "as politically moderate and weak, but he kept his country neutral in [the regional-]bloc politics of the Cold War era, just as he had done [during] the Second World War."

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