‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎224] (241/578)

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AFGHAN] SPAN.
frontier whicli liad been accepted by Amir Ilabibulla, and to the demar
cation of a small area in the Khyber where the first aggressions had
taken place during the recent war.
Annexed to the treaty, but not published with it at the time, was
a letter (annexure to ISTo. XXIII) admitting the independence of
Afghanistan in her foreign relations.
Between August 23rd and September 2nd demarcation in the vici
nity of Torkham was completed* as contemplated in the Rawalpindi
Peace Treaty.
On the 10th September 1919 the Amir addressed'letters to the Vice
roy intimating his pleasure at the restoration of peace; to Sir Hamilton
Grant, suggesting a treaty for the establishment and perpetuation of
friendship; and, in formal terms, to His Majesty the King. In another
letter of the 5th November, addressed to Sir Hamilton Grant as Chief
Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. Province, the Amir proposed
an Indo-Afghan Frontier Conference for the discussion and settlement
of the whole frontier problem.
The Afghan Treaty delegates, headed by Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. -i-Ala Mahmud Beg
darzi, father-in-law 7 of Amir Amanulla, reached Mussoorie on the 14th
April 1920. Four meetings with the British delegates, chief of whom
was Mr. H. R. C. Dobbs, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India,
had been held by the 24th April when the Conference was suspended on
account of acts of Afghan aggression on the Chaman, Kurram and Chitral
frontiers. On the adjustment of these matters, further meetings took
place between the 7th June and 24th July, on which date the Afghan
delegates returned to Kabul, taking with them an aide memoire which
indicated the terms on which negotiations might lie continued with a
view to the conclusion of a Treaty of Friendship.
On the 6th October 1920 the Amir addressed the Viceroy, inviting to
Kabul ^trustworthy representatives invested with power to conclude
a treaty”. The Viceroy accepted this invitation, and on the 7th Jan-
uary 1921 a British Mission, headed by Sir Henry Dobbs, arrived at
Kabul. _ Meanwhile Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhammad Wali Khan, who in October 1919
had arrived m Moscow with a Mission the object of which was to estab
lish touch with the chief countries of the world, had been well received by
J ,' / ® n ! n * ^% lian Consuls had been appointed to Tehran and Meshed,
Afghan Envoys had been established at Andijan, Tashkent and Bokhara,
and Suritz had been appointed as Consul of the Fnion of Soviet Socialist
Republics at Kabul. Suritz in Kabul and Muhammad Wali Khan in
Moscow had initiated conversations with the view to the conclusion of
a Russo-Afghan Treaty,! which was eventually signed on the 28th Febru-
* Appendix No. VI.
+ Appendix No. VII.