The former king will open the loya jirga on Monday; He returned to the country in April after 29 years in exile in Italy.

Youth gathering in Tripoli calling for the restoration of Libya’s constitutional monarchy When Afghanistan’s Emergency Loya Jirga met in June 2002 to decide the country’s political future, most of the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country’s fragile course toward democracy, died Monday, ...

An Afghan man looks at a calendar that features photographs of former King Mohammad Zaher Shah (left) and other Afghan leaders, current and past. The 87-year-old former monarch will return to his ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An extraordinary gathering of 1,500 Afghans convened Tuesday after the former president joined the ex-king in bowing out of the leadership race, paving the way for the election ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah has died aged 92, the private Afghan television network Tolo said on Monday. Shah ruled Afghanistan from 1933 until he was deposed in 1973 and ...

The last time Afghanistan pinned its hopes on Mohammed Zahir Shah, he was not much more than a boy. In 1933, as a 19-year-old Prince, he witnessed the assassination of his father, King Nadir Shah, and ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 10 -- Ask any Afghan over a certain age about the 40-year reign of King Mohammed Zahir Shah, and a look of dreamy nostalgia results. Those were the days of peace and ...

On the 11th of June, 2002, a Loya Jirga was held to transfer power to the Afghan Transitional Authority. The United States put all its hopes behind Hamid Karzai, even ...