1 Tilla - Habibullah

Habibullah Khan ruled Afghanistan from 1901 until his assassination in February 1919 while on a hunting trip in Laghman province — a murder never officially solved, though suspicion fell on factions within his own court who opposed his cautious neutrality during the First World War. His refusal to support the Ottoman jihad declaration had made him deeply unpopular with pan-Islamic elements, and the tilla issues of his final years were struck against a backdrop of mounting internal pressure that would end with his son Amanullah seizing the throne within days of the killing.