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Taliban on steroids

Dawn 28 Aug 2024
Amir Amanullah — whose ascent to the Kabul throne in 1919 was followed by strategic success in the third Anglo-Afghan war (the Rawalpindi peace treaty in August that year removed British influence ...
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The State of Afghanistan Three Years Since the ‘Fall of Kabul’

OWP 26 Aug 2024
Nevertheless, the Taliban will have extreme challenges to run the government without foreign aid, which was a precedent established ever since the Anglo-Afghan Wars in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Durand Line: A Tool of Deceit Against Afghan People

The Arabian Post 06 Mar 2024
To address this issue Britishers initiated the military campaigns against Afghanistan famously known as Anglo-Afghan wars ... including the prior Anglo-Afghan treaties upholding it are null and void.
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NON-FICTION: DURAND’S ‘PERPETUAL AGREEMENT’

Dawn 11 Feb 2024
... Abdali in 1747, the Great Game — the 19th century geopolitical drama involving Britain, Russia and Iran — and the blood-drenched Anglo-Afghan wars, culminating in the Durand Line agreement of 1893.
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PM Modi pays homage at National War Memorial, marking start of 75th Republic Day

Hindustan Times 26 Jan 2024
The iconic India Gate, constructed in 1931 by the former British Empire, serves as a commemoration for the Battle Casualties of India during World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War ... Amar Jawan Jyoti at the National War Memorial.
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The ‘Great Game’: The Russian-British scramble for Central Asia (PICS)

Russia Beyond 19 Dec 2023
Thus, soon after a visit to Kabul by a diplomatic mission led by Gen Nikolai Stoletov in 1877, the Second Anglo-Afghan War broke out, resulting in the Afghans losing a number of territories and some of their sovereignty.
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In Dehradun, a slice of Afghanistan

Indian Express 19 Nov 2023
This sparked the Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842), where the combined forces of the British East India Company and Maharaja Ranjit Singh confronted Dost Muhammad Khan's Afghan forces, culminating in the ...
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\u2018Daughter\u2019s wedding in Dec\u2026but now I have no house\u2019: 17 families in limbo as HC sets Kabul House eviction date

Indian Express 04 Nov 2023
Kabul House, also known as Kapyong House, belonged to Mohammad Yakub Khan, the emir of Afghanistan, and was his residence from 1879, when he was dethroned following the Second Anglo-Afghan War and exiled from his country.
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17 families evicted from Kabul House

Indian Express 03 Nov 2023
After the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879, Khan was dethroned and exiled by the British and sent to Dehradun, which was then part of British India, and he stayed in Kabul House from 1879 until his death in 1923.
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With World Cup upset, Afghanistan announce their arrival

Indian Express 17 Oct 2023
It\u2019s a moving human story \u2014 of war and ... It\u2019s a tale of revenge \u2014 the colonised beating the coloniser, of the still-deep wounds of Anglo-Afghan Wars and their destabilising effects.
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Britain’s pheasant shooting season has begun. And a year-round massacre makes it possible

The Observer 06 Oct 2023
... mass slaughter of humans in the Afghan, Opium, Anglo-Sikh, Xhosa and Anglo-Burmese wars and the Indian rebellion, in which the British laid waste to other civilisations with the help of new weaponry.
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A Gunners Day tribute to the regiment of artillery

Financial Express 25 Sep 2023
Later renamed as 5 Bombay Mountain Battery, it participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War between 1839 and 1842 ... In recognition of its success and role in World War II, it was prefixed with ‘Royal’ in October 1945.
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History on the run: A member of erstwhile Afghan royal family recounts palace feuds and politics that drove his country into ceaseless crisis

Financial Express 16 Sep 2023
The end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1921 led to the Treaty of Rawalpindi that recognised the country as an independent nation ... wars ... “The world only knows of the Afghanistan of endless wars.
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Break With Britain By King Amanullah Started New Era

Tolo News 20 Aug 2023
After that, on November 22, 1921, the Treaty of Rawalpindi, or the Third Anglo-Afghan War, was signed in Kabul, and the treaty guaranteed the internal and external independence of Afghanistan, and Britain recognized the independence of Afghanistan.
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Know Your City | Bangalore Palace: A Tudor castle in the middle of the city

Indian Express 04 Jun 2023
While it is oft-repeated that the palace's design was based on Windsor Castle, the connection is perhaps indirect at best ... A statue commemorates N Venkataswamy Raju, a daroga of the palace gardens who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War ... .

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