Sardar Shah Wali Khan(b. April 16, 1888 - d. April 1977) also known as Field Marshal Sardar Shah Wali Khan Ghazi was a political and military figure in Afghanistan. He was one of the uncles of King Mohammad Zahir Shah and President Mohammed Daoud Khan

Mohammed Daoud Khan

Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan or Daud Khan was Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and later becoming the President of Afghanistan...

. He was also brother of Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan

Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan

Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan was the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from May 1946 to 7 September 1953. He was from the Pashtun tribe of Mohammedzai. He was a brother of Nadir Khan, who ousted Habibullah Kalakani , and uncle of Zahir Shah, the King of Afghanistan, from 1933 to 1973, and uncle of...

, King Mohammed Nadir Shah

Mohammed Nadir Shah

Mohammed Nadir Shah was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in 1933. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the military of Afghanistan...

 and Mohammad Hashim Khan.

He was the father of His Royal Highness Lieutenant-General Sardar Abdul Wali Khan, senior cousin and adviser to king Mohammed Zahir Shah throughout their exile.

Career

• Commander of Royal Bodyguard in 1906
• Commander of Cavalry Corps in 1921
• Equerry to King Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan was the King of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Amir and after 1926 as Shah. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change...
  
    in 1924
• Commander in chief of the army that defeated Habibullah Kalakani (also known as Bacha-ye Saqqow) and captured Kabul on 10 October 1929, for which he received the titles of Ghazi and Fateh Kabul ("Conqueror of Kabul").
• Viceroy to King Nader Shah in 1929
• Acting Minister for Defence from 1935 to 1936
• Acting Prime Minister from 1936 to 1937
• Ambassador to Pakistan from 1948 to 1949.