Mohammad Hashim Khan

{{Short description|Afghan Prime Minister}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mohammad Hashim Khan<br />{{nq|محمد هاشم خان}} | image = Mohammad Hashim Khan - NAC - PIC 1-E-222.jpg | image_size = | order = Prime Minister of Afghanistan | monarch = Mohammad Nadir Shah (9 November 1929 – 8 November 1933)<ref>{{cite book | title=Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan | date=1975 | isbn=978-3-201-00921-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3469/page/159/mode/2up?q=%22hashim+khan%2C+muhammad%22 }}</ref><br />Mohammad Zahir Shah (8 November 1933 – 9 May 1946)<ref name="H"/> | term_start = 9 November 1929 | term_end = 9 May 1946 | predecessor = Shir Giyan | successor = Shah Mahmud Khan | birth_date = 1884<ref name="H">[https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&dq=Mohammad+Hashim+Khan+1884&pg=PA18 Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Edited by Harris M. Lentz]</ref><ref name="Conspiracies">{{cite book |last1=Engineer Fazel Ahmed Afghan MSc |title=Conspiracies and Atrocities in Afghanistan |date=2015 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781503573000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hzIDCgAAQBAJ&dq=sardar+mohammad+hashim+khan&pg=PT298}}</ref> | birth_place = Dehradun, British India | death_date = 26 October 1953 (aged 68–69) | death_place = Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan }} Sardar '''Mohammad Hashim Khan''' (1884 – 26 October 1953) was a political figure in Afghanistan.

== Life and career == Mohammad Hashim Khan was born in 1884 in Dehradun, British India. He was the younger brother of King Mohammad Nadir Shah and the elder brother of Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan and Sardar Shah Wali Khan.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Hashim put into effect the policies already orchestrated by his brothers. Internal objectives of the new Afghan government focused on strengthening the army and shoring up the economy, including transport and communications. Both goals required foreign assistance. Preferring not to rely on the Soviet Union or Britain, Hashim turned to Nazi Germany. By 1935 German experts and businessmen had set up factories and hydroelectric projects at the invitation of the Afghan government. Smaller amounts of aid were also offered by Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. He governed Afghanistan as Royal Prime Minister from 8 November 1933<ref name="H"/> until 9 May 1946.

During the war years he faced significant opposition as a result of his stance on the ongoing political question of whether to yield to the British or resist them. The decision to expel Axis colonies from Afghanistan was particularly unpopular and by October 1941 the Italian Minister in Kabul was reporting to the Foreign Affairs Office in Rome that Hashim would 'have his work cut out to save not only appearances but his life itself'.

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