1940 in Afghanistan
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The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Afghanistan.
Internal economic development is furthered by increasing the availability of land for cultivation, by assistance to the sugar-beet industry, and by official sanction of a scheme for the formation of a joint-stock company to coordinate the work of the country's cotton pressing, spinning, and weaving factories. Special taxation is imposed for the purchase of arms from abroad and the construction of two radio stations and three railway lines.
Incumbents
- Mohammed Zahir Shah
- Prime Minister – Mohammad Hashim Khan
January 1940
Obligatory national service for all males over 17 is decreed.
Early 1940
Archaeology benefits by the discovery of the long-buried city of
July 1940
A trade agreement with the
August 17, 1940
Parliament is opened at Kabul, and the king says that the country is pursuing a policy consistent with a declaration of neutrality, and that political and economic relations between Afghanistan and the belligerent powers are very cordial. However, he stresses the necessity of being prepared and united in view of current external events.
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