references5 ‘Kabul Embassy to State Department, Meeting with President Da’ud’, 22 July
19 73, Plus D cables, https://wikileaks.org.
6 ‘Presidential Address, Republic Day Speech’, Kabul Times, 10 July 1975.
7 For Da’ud’s fiscal manipulations, see Muhammad Khan Jalallar, Rumi
Tomato: Autobiography of an Afghan Minister, ed. Babur Rashidzada
(Create Space self-publishing, 2011), Chapter Eight.
8 ‘Evaluation of Da’ud’s Government and Comments on Pushtunistan
Policy’, 29 August 1973; ‘Republican Government after Three Months: an
Assessment’, 22 October 1973, Plus D Cables, https://wikileaks.org.
9 ‘Telegram, Embassy in Afghanistan to State Department’, 17 September
1973; see also ibid., 17 and 30 July 1973, frus, 1969–1976, vol. e-8, nos 4, 5.
10 ‘Evaluation of Da’ud’s Government’, 29 August 1973.
11 ‘Audience with the Shah’, 2 October 1973, Plus D Cables, https://wikileaks.
org.
12 ‘Evaluation of Da’ud’s Government’, 29 August 1973.
13 ‘Pakistan-Afghanistan, Three Ways to Confrontation’, 5 November 1973,
frus, 1969–1976, vol. E-8, no. 9.
14 See ‘Arrests of Prominent Civilian and Military Leaders and Rumors of
Abortive Coup Attempt’, 21 September 1973; ‘Afghanistan: More on Alleged
Coup Attempt’, 24 September 1973, Plus D Cables, https://wikileaks.org;
‘Death of Former Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandal’, 16
October 1973, cia (foia) Collection, http://www.foia.cia.gov.
15 ‘Confessions of September Coup Plotters Broadcast on Radio Afghanistan’,
7 December 1973, Plus D Cables, https://wikileaks.org.
16 See Dr M. Halim Tanwir, Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism
(Bloomington, in, 2010), vol. i, pp. 253–8.
17 ‘Reactions to the Panjsher Clash’, 1 August 1975, Plus D Cables, https://
wikileaks.org.
18 ‘Memorandum of Conversation’, 1 July 1976, frus, 1969–1976, vol. e-8,
no. 26.
19 Jalallar, Rumi Tomato, p. 148.
20 ‘Year-end Afghan External Assessment’, 13 December 1975, Plus D Cables,
https://wikileaks.org.
21 ‘Afghanistan has no other wish but friendship, brotherhood with Pak
Nation’, Kabul Times, 12 June 1976.
22 ‘Embassy in Afghanistan to Department of State’, 19 June 1976, frus, 1969–
1979, vol. e-8, no. 22.
23 Jalallar, Rumi Tomato, p. 174.
24 For English text of the 1977 Constitution, see http://afghantranslation.
checchiconsulting.com, accessed 27 October 2017.
25 ‘Eliot to Secretary of State’, 13 April 1977, Plus D Cables, https://wikileaks.org
26 ‘President Da’ud’s Speech’, Kabul Times, 14 April 1977.
27 Jalallar, Rumi Tomato, p. 185.
28 Abdul Samad Ghaus, The Fall of Afghanistan: An Insider’s Account
(Washington, dc, 1988), pp. 179–80.
29 Tanwir, Afghanistan, vol. i, p. 267.
30 Kabul Times, 4 May 1978.