But he wasn’t an evil creep murdering thousands was he?
We have plenty of American Senate and Congressmen who fit the discription you posted.
Wish washy types too, but well meaning.
kinda - through neglect.
On 8 November 1933, he was proclaimed king after his father, Mohammed Nadir Shah, was assassinated.
In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution.
He instituted programs of political and economic modernization, ushering in a democratic legislature, education for women and other such changes. These reforms put him at odds with the religious militants who opposed him.
Critics however, claim Zahir’s rule as one of the darkest times of economic mismanagement in Afghanistan. During his reign hundreds of thousands of people of the central and northern highlands died as a result of lack of supply of food, while he built castles and bought palaces in Kabul and Italy. All the major governments posts were distributed to the people of his family. No new roads, highways, dams and other infrastructure was built during his entire rule if the Helmand Valley project and other efforts are disregarded. Public and private sectors were heavily Pashtunized where only people of King’s ethnic group could rise in ranks. Non-Pashtun ethnic groups of Afghanistan were heavily persecuted and were only allowed access to few offices and positions. Famine killed thousands and the infrastructure outside the capital Kabul was devastated.
At the end of Zahir Shah’s reign only 50 kilometers of asphalt road existed in the whole of Afghanistan and the economy was in crisis.