Emir of Afghanistan
1816
September 1847 (aged 31) Jalalabad, Afghanistan
NamesAmir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai
For the neighborhood in Kabul named after him, see Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul. For other people named Akbar Khan, see Akbar Khan (disambiguation). Ghazi Wazīr Akbar Khān (Pashto/Dari: وزير اکبر خان ; 1816-1847), born Mohammad Akbar Khān (محمد اکبر خان ) and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (امير اکبر خان ), was an Afghan prince, general, emir for a year, and finally wazir/heir apparent to Dost Mohammad Khan until his death in 1847. His fame began with the 1837 Battle of Jamrud, while attempting to regain Afghanistan's second capital Peshawar from the Sikh Empire. Wazir Akbar Khan was militarily active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842. He is prominent for his leadership of the national party in Kabul from 1841 to 1842, and his massacre of Elphinstone's army at the Gandamak pass before the only survivor, the assistant surgeon William Brydon, reached the besieged garrison at Jalalabad on 13 January 1842. Wazir Akbar Khan became the emir of Afghanistan in May 1842, and ruled until Dost Mohammad Khan's return in 1843. In 1847 Wazir Akbar Khan died of cholera.
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