Reports suggest that he is lending his support to Hamid Karzai's campaign to rally southern Pashtun tribal leaders behind the exiled king.

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In 1940, in Romania, the pro-Nazi Iron Guard slaughtered more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Jorga.

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Significantly, too, Pakistan's rulers have come round to the idea that a broad-based coalition government in Afghanistan led by the exiled former king, Muhammad Zahir Shah, could be an option.

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Bulgaria might then provide the example and be the impetus for neighboring Romania to follow suit with its also-exiled, intensely patriotic King Michael.

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