Mohammad Daoud Khan, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973
Official portrait, 1973
Daoud Khan in 1956
Daoud Khan visiting National Iranian Radio and Television in Iran, c. 1974.
Outside the front gates of the Arg (the presidential palace, formerly the chief royal palace) in Kabul, the day after the Saur Revolution (28 April 1978)