Ali Ahmad Khan Shaghasi later rallied the Khogyani and Shinwari to quell the Khost rebellion, to which he was honoured with the honorary tile of Taj-i-Afghan by king Amanullah.

[3] Sometime Minister for Home Affairs 1919-1920 and Governor of Kabul 1925-1929, Ali Ahmad also served as high commissioner of the Eastern and Southern provinces.

[3] During the Afghan civil war of 1928–29, Ali was ordered to quell a Shinwari revolt, which he duly ended in December 1928.

[5] Later, after Inayatullah Khan was forced to surrendered control of Kabul and Arg to Habibullāh Kalakāni on 18 January 1929, Ali was declared as a lawful Amir of Afghanistan by Naqib Sahib in Jalalabad.

Loinab Khushdil Khan, sometime Governor of Kabul and Kandahar, by his wife Sahira Begum, daughter of H.H.