Mohammad Azam Khan

Mohammad Azam Khan Barakzai was briefly the Emir of Afghanistan from 7 October 1867 to 21 August 1868. He was born in 1820, and was the fifth son of Dost Mohammad Khan. He was an ethnic Pashtun belonging to the Barakzai tribe. Azam Khan succeeded his brother Mohammad Afzal Khan after the latter's death from cholera on 7 October 1867. Sher Ali Khan was reinstated as Emir of Afghanistan and his forces captured Kabul on 21 August 1868. Sher Ali himself entered Kabul on 8 September 1868. Mohammad Azam Khan fled to Sistan and then to Iran, where he died in 1870.