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Ghulam Nabi Khan

Afghan envoy to the Soviet Union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ119599990 ↗
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Ghulam Nabi Khan (1890–1932) was an Afghan military general and the Envoy to France in 1926. He was invited to what he thought was a meeting with Nadir Shah where he could persuade him to allow King Amanullah to return to Afghanistan. Instead, he was beaten to death without trial and his six-year-old son was jailed.

Ghulam Nabi Khan was a Tajik and also an ambassador to Moscow. His father was Ghulam Haider Khan, a General under the Iron Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan. One of his household servants was Abdul Khaliq Hazara, who assassinated Nadir Shah in 1933.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ghulam Nabi Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.