Talk:Amanullah Khan

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I am not an expert on Afghan history, so I am unwilling to edit this page, but my understanding is that the 3rd Afghan War resulted in a peace treaty in August of 1919... so the reference to 1921 seems misleading.

The Treaty of Rawalpindi was signed August 8th, 1919. FwdObserver (talk) 09:36, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Misleading indeed. Amanullah sought an armistice on May 31st, following the bombing of Kabul. The armistice came into effect on June 3rd, 1919. [The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account, p. 50]

Also, it might be of interest to mention that Amanullah was the first ruler who was partly persuaded to make peace by the use of an air strike. A single Handley Page bomber dropped bombs on Kabul on May 17th -- according to Sven Lindqvist, author of A History of Bombing, a bomb struck the king's harem (that is, his palace or private enclosure.) A senior air commander in the India-based squadrons of the Royal Air Force was Arthur "Bomber" or "Butcher" Harris, who later commanded the area bombing of Germany. It is said he learned from this and his bombing of Iraq a few years later that bombing alone could win a major war. He was, of course, wrong about that. But it would not be too much to say that the 3rd Afghan War was the first war won at least in part by bombing the enemy homeland. This is why the bombing of Amanullah's capital was not merely a historical curiosity and might be worthy of mention in the article.

Barry Stevens

Yes, I am an afghan and many people call me an expert on the Afghan issues, I work in one of the worlds leading news stations. I have been reading wikipedia and have found that the people who write it are biased when they write about the Mujahedeen specially those Mujahedeen who are of non Pashtoon background. Wikipedia is used as a tool to miss inform.

H.M

Broken link
The link for the second reference (Amanullah Khan Biography - Biography.com) no longer works. Languagehat (talk) 18:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Needs Cites
This whole article needs more cites to support the text. Geraldshields11 (talk) 12:45, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Role in the history of the Pashto language
Hi,

Does anybody know what was this person's role in the history of the Pashto language?

See Talk:Pashto.

Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:46, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Death
Amanullah Khan died in Italy where he sought asylum after fleeing to India. The source that says he died in Switzerland is for his son's death.  Goon  talk 12:20, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Marriages
It says he married Soraya Tarzi and I guess she was his first wive. Later in the article his fourth wife Aliya Begum is mentioned and also another wife, an Italian lady, who was obviously his fifth wife. Question: Who was wife number 2 and 3 and how does this all go together with the German version of the article, where three wives ar mentioned: Schazaha Hanim (1st), Soraya Tarzi (2nd) and Aliah Begum (3rd)? --Glamourqueen (talk) 17:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)