Afghanistan Independence Day | |
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![]() President Hamid Karzai observing the honor guard of the Afghan Armed Forces during the 2011 Afghan Independence Day in Kabul | |
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Significance | Marks Afghanistan's regaining of full independence from British influence in 1919 |
Date | 19 August |
Next time | 19 August 2025 |
Frequency | annual |
Afghan Independence Day is celebrated as a national holiday in Afghanistan on 19 August to commemorate the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919[1] and relinquishment from British Protected state status.[2] The treaty granted a complete neutral relation between Afghanistan and Britain. Afghanistan had become a British protectorate after the Treaty of Gandamak was signed (1879) in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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