KABUL of liberty at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
A smartly turned-out MoD guard played the national anthem as part of the short ceremony.
The cabinet members and a number of other government officials also attended the ceremony.
August 19 commemorates the signing of the 1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, which granted Afghanistan full independence from Britain under the kingship of Ghazi Amanullah Khan. The country was never part of the British Raj.
The Independence Day was celebrating with high zeal in . . .
