About Habibullah Kalakani Habībullāh Kalakānī (c. 1890 – 13 October 1929), (حبیب‌الله کلکانی) also known as Habībullāh Ghāzī and Bacha-ye Saqqā, was Emir of Afghanistan from 17 January to 13 October 1929. He named himself Habībullāh Khādem-e Dīn-e Rasūlallāh ("The servant of the religion of the messenger of God"). He became emir for a few months in 1929 by deposing Amānullāh Khān with the help of various Pashtun tribes who opposed the King's rapid modernization plans. He was himself overthrown and executed on 17 October 1929 by the army of Mohammed Nadir Khan. As an ethnic Tajik, he was and is considered a usurper by the Pashtuns of Afghanistan, since he interrupted the Pashtun Barakzai Dynasty (which resumed upon his death). Among the Pashtuns, he is commonly referred to by a derogatory term as Bacha-ye Saqqow (in Persian "son of the water-carrier") because his father was at one point a water-carrier in the Afghan army. Among the Tajiks, however, he is still remembered and respected as a rightful king. Additionally, he is also celebrated by the famous poet Khalīlallāh Khalīlī in his masterpiece Hero of Khorasan ("Ayyār-e az Khorāsān").