Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan juyin mulkin 1978
inda aka hambarar da Shugaba Mohammed Daoud Khan kuma aka kashe shi, aka nada Tanai a matsayin shugaban hukumar leken asirin soji. Ya tsira daga shekarun zubar da jini da suka biyo baya a lokacin juyin juya halin Saur. Nadinsa na farko shi ne na Kwamandan Kabul garrison.