1946 in Afghanistan

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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1946 List of years in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Afghanistan.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Mohammed Zahir Shah
• Prime Minister – Mohammad Hashim Khan (until 9 May), Shah Mahmud Khan (starting 9 May)

May 1946[]

succeeds as prime minister. This change of government, after a period of 17 years without change, leads to the proclamation of a general amnesty for political prisoners and the setting up of a high court of justice for the trial of future political offenders.

June 5, 1946[]

Afghanistan applies for membership in the United Nations. This is approved on August 29, and Afghanistan is formally admitted as a member by the Assembly on November 19.^[1]

June 13, 1946[]

An agreement is signed in Moscow by Vyacheslav Molotov and Sultan Ahmad Khan, Afghan ambassador, reestablishing the frontier which had existed between Afghanistan and imperial Russia; the new treaty concerns the frontier line along the and Oxus rivers and provides for the incorporation in the U.S.S.R. of the Kashka district, ceded to Afghanistan in 1921.

1946[]

The women's movement in Afghanistan is resumed by the foundation of Women's Welfare Association, the first women's organisation in Afghanistan since the Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan.

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