Inayatullah Khan
King of Afghanistan
Died when: 57 years 296 days (693 months)Star Sign: Libra
Inayatullah Khan (Pashto/Dari: ????? ???? ???), (20 October 1888 – 12 August 1946) was the King of Afghanistan for three days in January 1929.He was the son of former Afghan Emir, Habibullah Khan.
Inayatullah's brief reign ended with his abdication.In the middle of the night, on 14 January 1929, Amanullah Khan handed over his kingship to his brother Inayatullah Khan and tried to secretly escape from Kabul to Kandahar.
Habibullah Kalakani and his followers chased Amanullah's Rolls Royce on horseback but Amanullah managed to escape.With the King gone, Kalakani wrote a letter to King Inayatullah to either surrender or prepare for war.
Inayatullah's response was that he had never sought nor wished to be king and agreed to abdicate and proclaim Kalakani as king on 18 January 1929.
Inayatullah was airlifted out of Kabul by the Royal Air Force and spent the remainder of his life in exile.
In August 1929, during the , there were rumours in Kabul that rupees bearing Inayatullah's name were circulating among anti-Kalakani forces.This led some to believe that Inaytullah had begun to contest the Afghan throne.
However, nothing came of this, and the rumours quickly subsided.Inayatullah remained in Iran, until his death in Tehran in 1946.
