President Ashraf Ghani laid a floral wreath at Azadi minaret (Independence Minaret) on Sunday 19 August to mark Afghanistan 99th anniversary of independence.
The ceremony was held at the headquarter of National Defence Ministry.
The ceremony was attended by National Government leaders including CEO Abdullah Abdullah, first VP General Abdul Rashid Dostum, former President Hamid Karzai, Princess India d’Afghanistan, daughter of the late King Amanullah Khan, CEO’s Second Deputy Mohammad Mohaqiq, Chief Justice Sayed Yousuf Haleem and head of high court, National Security adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar, and other dignitaries including the Head of Afghanistan’s Ulema’s Council Qiamuddin Kashaf, a number of high-ranking officials and Presidential Palace advisers, parliament members and high court members, military officials, ambassadors and country representatives in Kabul.
The wreath was led in honor of Ghazi Amanullah, a former Afghan king who led the country to independence, and other heroes, martyrs and warriors of independence war, according to a statement from Ghazni’s office.
99 years before now, the former king of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan achieved the independence from Britain in 1919.
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