Editing Mohammad Zahir Shah (section)

===Ancestry===
Zahir's father, [[Mohammad Nadir Shah]], was the son of Sardar Mohammad Yusuf Khan. Born in [[Dehradun]], [[British India]], Nadir's family had been exiled after the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]. Nadir Shah was a descendant of [[Sardar]] [[Sultan Mohammed Khan|Sultan Mohammad Khan]] Telai, half-brother of Emir [[Dost Mohammad Khan]]. His grandfather Mohammad Yahya Khan (father in law of Emir Yaqub Khan) was in charge of the negotiations with the British resulting in the [[Treaty of Gandamak]]. After the British invasion after the killing of [[Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari|Sir Louis Cavagnari]] during 1879, [[Yaqub Khan]], Yahya Khan and his sons Princes Mohammad Yusuf Khan and Mohammad Asef Khan were taken captive by the British and transferred to the British Raj, where they remained forcibly until the two princes were invited back to Afghanistan by [[Emir]] [[Abdur Rahman Khan]] during the last year of his reign (1901). During the reign of Amir Habibullah they received the title of Companions of the King ([[Musahiban]]). Nadir assumed the throne after the execution of the self-proclaimed ruler of Afghanistan [[Habibullah Kalakani]] on 1 November 1929.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', [https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-21408/Afghanistan "Afghanistan Mohammad Nader Shah (1929–33)"]</ref>