{{short description|Afghan envoy to the Soviet Union}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Sardār | name = Ghulam Nabi Khan | image = Ghulam Nabi Khan.png | office = Afghan Envoy to the Soviet Union | office2 = Afghan Envoy to France | term_end2 = 1926 | term_start2 = 1926 | rank = General | battles = Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) *Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929) Basmachi Movement{{assassinated}} | allegiance = {{Flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1928–1929).svg}} Kingdom of Afghanistan | birth_date = 1890 | birth_place = Charkh,{{efn|May also be known by the name, Ali Ghulam Nabi ''Charkhi'' due to the Afghan name}} Emirate of Afghanistan<ref>Sangar ''[https://sangar.info/en/the/h/firor-1929-rivoyati-amonullo-khon2-5 Escape-1929: Story of Amanullah Khan-2]'' (Mar 2022)</ref> | death_date = 1932 | death_place = Kingdom of Afghanistan }}.
'''Ghulam Nabi Khan''' was an Afghan military general and the Envoy to France in 1926.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Délégation permanente d'Afghanistan auprès de l'UNESCO et de l'ICESCO |url=https://amb-afg.fr/ |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=L'Ambassade de la R.I. d'Afghanistan en France |language=fr |archive-date=2021-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905063530/https://www.amb-afg.fr/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=a_malyavin |date=2015-02-03 |title=Февраль 1922-го, прием посла Афганистана в Самаре |url=https://a-malyavin.livejournal.com/66898.html |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Личное мнение}}</ref> He was invited to what he thought was a meeting with Nadir Shah where he could persuade him to allow King Amanullah to return to Afghanistan. Instead he was beaten to death and his six-year-old son was jailed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siddiq |first=Adam |url=https://www.amazon.com/SHACKLED-Journey-Political-Imprisonment-Freedom-ebook/dp/B078JYQF8C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1513945600&sr=8-1 |title=SHACKLED: A Journey From Political Imprisonment To Freedom |date=2017-12-21 |publisher=Lineage Publishing |language=English}}</ref>
Ghulam Nabi Khan, a Yusufzai Sardar was also an ambassador to Moscow and was killed without trial by the authority of King Nadir Shah.<ref>''[http://alamahabibi.net/pdfs/Nader%20Khan-And-Family.pdf Nader Khan and His Family, Jamhoor-e Islam]'' (1952) Abdul Hai Habibi</ref> His father was Ghulam Haider Khan, a General under the Iron Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan.<ref>''[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400858910/html#contents King Mohammad Nadir Shah: 1929-1933]'' from ''Afghanistan'', Louis Dupree (1973)</ref> One of his household servants was Abdul Khaliq Hazara, who assassinated Nadir Shah in 1933.
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