Editing Durand Line (section)

=== British Raj declares war on Afghanistan ===
{{further|Third Anglo-Afghan War}}

The Durand Line triggered a long-running [[controversy]] between the governments of Afghanistan and British India,<ref name="LoC-Smith"/> especially after the outbreak of the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] when Afghanistan's capital (Kabul) and its eastern city of [[Jalalabad]] were [[strategic bombing|bombed]] by the [[No. 31 Squadron RAF|No. 31]] and [[No. 114 Squadron RAF|No. 114 Squadrons]] of the British [[Royal Air Force]] in May 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/afghanistan/page4.shtml |title=The Road to Kabul: British armies in Afghanistan, 1839–1919 |publisher=[[National Army Museum]] |access-date=11 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126035657/http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/afghanistan/page4.shtml |archive-date=26 November 2010 }}</ref><ref name="BL">{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/afghanistan/afghanistancollection/1919to1928/sources1919to1928.html |title=Afghanistan 1919–1928: Sources in the India Office Records |quote=1919 (May), the outbreak of Third Anglo-Afghan War. British bomb Kabul and Jalalabad; |publisher=[[British Library]] |access-date=11 February 2011 |archive-date=16 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116111138/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/afghanistan/afghanistancollection/1919to1928/sources1919to1928.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Afghan rulers reaffirmed in the 1919, 1921, and 1930 treaties to accept the Indo-Afghan frontier.<ref name="WM">[http://www.afghanland.com/history/durrand.html End of Imaginary Durrand Line: North Pakistan belongs to Afghanistan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216231305/http://www.afghanland.com/history/durrand.html |date=16 December 2009 }} by Wahid Momand</ref><ref name="Prescott"/><ref>Jeffery J. Roberts, The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003), p. 121.</ref>

{{blockquote|The Afghan Government accepts the Indo–Afghan frontier accepted by the late [[Habibullah Khan|Amir]]|Article V of the August 8, 1919 [[Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919|Treaty of Rawalpindi]]}}

{{blockquote|The two high contracting parties mutually accept the Indo-Afghan frontier as accepted by the Afghan Government under Article V of the Treaty concluded on August 8, 1919|Article II of the November 22, 1921 finalising of the Treaty of Rawalpindi}}