Mir Ahmad Shah (d. 1978) was an Afghan military general and Islamist intellectual who led an attempted
coup d'etat against the Afghan government in December 1976. and was later executed after the
1978 communist takeover of the country. Due to his prominence and influence as a scholar, he had been brought into the government fold and given the title of ''Firqa Meshir'', chief of the army.
Rizwani was a follower of Islamic scholar
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani, and headed his own Islamist group, mainly composed of army personnel, called
Qiyam-i Islami (Islamic Uprising), which plotted an abortive coup against the government of President
Mohammed Daoud Khan
Mohammed Daoud Khan ( ps, ), also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan (18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978), was an Afghan politician and general who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup ...
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The coup was preempted; Rizwani and 50 of his associates (such as Sayyid Ismail Pasikh and Akhtar Mohammad Sulaimankhel) were arrested on December 9, 1976, and Rizwani executed in 1978 following the communist takeover. His associates who survived fled to
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
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Afghan military personnel
Afghan religious leaders
20th-century executions by Afghanistan
1978 deaths
Coup d'état attempts in Asia