Wazir Akbar Khan

Mohammad Akbar Khan Barakzai (1816 – 10 December 1847), famous as Wazir Akbar Khan, was a Barakzai prince and general, son of the Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. He was Emir of Kabul from December 1842 to April 1843, and his father's vizier and heir apparent until his death. The birth year is disputed: the English article's text and the Arabic and Urdu articles give 1816, its infobox 1817, and the death year likewise (1847 in the English article, 1845 in the Arabic and Urdu infoboxes); both splits are recorded in the data file. ^{1 2 3}

He was born at Mazar-i-Sharif to Dost Mohammad Khan and Merman Khadija Popalzai. His fame began at the Battle of Jamrud in 1837, where Afghan forces failed to retake the fort from the Sikh Empire but the Sikh commander Hari Singh Nalwa was killed; the Urdu article remembers the fight as single combat between the two men. ^{1 3}

In the war of 1839–1842 he led the national party in Kabul against the British occupation that had deposed his father. The British-Indian army under Elphinstone was permitted to retreat from Kabul in January 1842 and was destroyed in the passes; the assistant surgeon William Brydon, the famous sole survivor to reach Jalalabad on 13 January 1842, became the enduring image of the disaster. Akbar Khan took the Bala Hissar in May 1842 and held Kabul until his father's restoration. ^{1 2}

He ruled as Emir from December 1842 until Dost Mohammad's return in April 1843, and thereafter served as vizier and heir apparent. He died of cholera at Jalalabad on 10 December 1847 and was buried at the Blue Mosque, the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, in Mazar-i-Sharif. Kabul's diplomatic quarter, Wazir Akbar Khan, still carries his name. ^{1 2}

No article text names a school for him. The English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam; the Arabic article's infobox gives Islam generically and the Urdu article carries no religion field. Under the museum's two-source rule the record therefore stays unknown, with the single structured attestation preserved in the data file. ^{1 2 3}

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