AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER
A VISIT TO ENGLAND NO SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 2. The Prime Minister of Afghanistan, the Sirdar Mohamed Hashim Khan, who is at present the guesi of the British Government in London, will be received in audience by the King at Buckingham Palace at noon. The Times remarks that there is no reason to attribute special significance to the visit to England of the Sirdar, who naturally desired, before returning to Afghanistan, to make contact with the British Government, with which the Afghan State maintains increasingly neighbourly relations. During the last seven years there has been a marked diminution in the suspicion with which Afghans formerly regarded the Government of India. Recent operations on the North-West frontier have excited no alarm on their side of the border. Meanwhile Afghan trade is increasing, foreign expert assistance being enlisted for development of the country's resources, and the Sirdar will have opportunities of discussing these and other matters of mutual interest with his hosts in the course of his visit, which ends on Friday. The Sirdar will be the guest of honour at a dinner given at the Foreign Office by the Foreign Secretary on behalf of the Government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23106, 4 February 1937, Page 9
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