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Mohammad Yaqub Khan محمد يعقوب خان
Amir of Afghanistan
Mohammad Yaqub Khan
Emir of Afghanistan
Reign
21 February – 12 October 1879
Coronation
None
Predecessor
Sher Ali Khan
Successor
Ayub Khan
Born
1849 Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan
Died
November 15, 1923(1923-11-15) (aged 73–74) Shimla, British India
Issue
Abdul Shakur Khan[1] Abdul Ali Khan[1] Abdul Karim Khan[1] Abdul Aziz Khan[1] Nur Muhammad Khan[1]
Dynasty
Barakzai dynasty
Father
Sher Ali Khan
Mother
Maryam Begum
Mohammad Yaqub Khan (Pashto/Dari: محمد يعقوب خان; 1849[2] – November 15, 1923) was Emir of Afghanistan from February 21 to October 12, 1879. He was a Pashtun and the son of the previous ruler, Sher Ali Khan.
Mohammad Yaqub Khan was appointed as the governor of Herat province in 1863.[1] In 1870, he decided to rebel against his father but failed and was imprisoned in 1874.
The Second Anglo-Afghan War erupted in 1878, leading Sher Ali Khan to flee the capital of Afghanistan, and eventually die in February 1879 in the north of the country. As Sher Ali's successor, Yaqub signed the Treaty of Gandamak with Britain in May 1879, relinquishing sole control of Afghanistan foreign affairs to the British Empire. An uprising against this agreement led by Ayub Khan in October of the same year, led to the abdication of Yaqub Khan.[3] He was succeeded by the new ruler, Amir Ayub Khan.
^ abcdefAdamec, Ludwig W. (1975). Historical and Political Who's who of Afghanistan. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. p. 220. ISBN 9783201009218.
^McChesney, Robert; Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (2012-12-19). The History of Afghanistan (6 vol. set): Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-23498-7.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Yakub Khan" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 898.
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