Azād Khān Afghān, or Azād Shāh Afghān (died 1781), is a Pashtun military commander and a major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747.
Azad rises to power between 1752 and 1757, and controls part of the Azerbaijan region up to Urmia city, northwestern and northern Persia, and parts of southwestern Turkmenistan and eastern Kurdistan.
Azad is a contemporary of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Durrani Empire.
