Father of Afghanistan Dies

Via RRT News -

The last King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, has died in Kabul, the President Hamid Karzai said Monday. He was 92.

Zahir Shah was ousted in 1973 in a palace coup after a 40-year reign. He lived in exile in Italy since then and returned to Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

A new constitution passed in January 2004 named Zahir Shah as the ceremonial "Father of the Nation," a position that will dissolve with his death.