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Treaty which ended the Third Anglo-Afghan War
The
Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919
,
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also known as the
Treaty of Rawalpindi
, was a treaty which brought the
Third Anglo-Afghan War
to an end.
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It was signed on 8 August 1919 in
Rawalpindi
,
Punjab
, by the
United Kingdom
and the
Emirate of Afghanistan
. Britain recognised Afghanistan's independence (as per Article 5 of the treaty), agreed that British India would not extend past the
Khyber Pass
and stopped British subsidies to Afghanistan. Afghanistan also accepted all previously agreed border arrangements with British India as per Article 5 of the Anglo-Afghan treaty of 1919.
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Thus, Afghanistan as an independent country agreed to recognise the
Durand Line
as international border between the two countries.
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References
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Further reading
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- Adamec, L. W.
(1985).
"Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1921"
. In
Yarshater, Ehsan
(ed.).
Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume II/1: An?maka?Anthropology
. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 36?37.
ISBN
978-0-71009-101-7
.
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.
The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839?1919
(2014)
- Tripodi, Christian. "Grand Strategy and the Graveyard of Assumptions: Britain and Afghanistan, 1839?1919."
Journal of Strategic Studies
33.5 (2010): 701?725.
online
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