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Mohammad Afzal Khan

1811–1867 · 19th century

Mohammad Afzal Khan was the eldest son of Dost Mohammad Khan and emir of Afghanistan from 1865 to 1867. As governor in the north he conquered Kunduz and other Uzbek principalities for his father in the 1850s. In the civil war after Dost Mohammad's death he took Kabul from his half-brother Sher Ali Khan, but he died after about a year in power.

Mohammad Afzal Khan
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Kataghan Khanate

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