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Dost Mohammad Khan (Persian: دوست محمد خان (Pashto: دوست محمد خان December 23 1793 – June 9 1863) was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. With the decline of the Durrani dynasty he became Emir of Afghanistan from 1826 to 1839 and then from 1845 to 1863. An ethnic IranianTemplate:Source? he was the 11th son of Sardar Payendah Khan (chief of the Barakzai tribe) who was killed in 1799 by Zaman Shah Durrani.
