See also: 1946 in Afghanistan

1946 in Afghanistan

See also: 1945 in Afghanistan, other events of 1946, and 1947 in Afghanistan.-----May 1946:Sardar Shah Mahmud succeeds Sardar Mohammad Hashim as prime minister...

, other events of 1947, and 1948 in Afghanistan

1948 in Afghanistan

See also: 1947 in Afghanistan, other events of 1948, and 1949 in Afghanistan.----Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are peaceful and formally correct. The unsettled relations between Pakistan and India, however, interfere with the Afghan foreign trade which for decades had gone mostly by...

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Because of close ties of kinship and common cultural tradition, Afghanistan is deeply concerned over the question of the right to self-determination of the Afghans of the North-West Frontier Province

North-West Frontier Province

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country...

 of India, arising from the creation of the separate independent states of India and Pakistan.

Afghanistan sends an observer-delegate to the Geneva meetings of the UN Conference on Trade and Employment.

September 30, 1947

Afghanistan is the only country to vote against the admission of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

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