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There is no evidence that this flag was ever used for the Durrani Empire or Afghanistan.--Officer (talk) 05:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
- And? Which flag was used then? Khestwol (talk) 18:44, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
- Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan, by w:Ludwig W. Adamec. "FLAG. Afghanistan's first national flag was the Abdali banner, depicting a cluster of wheat, a sword, and stars on a background of red and green." http://books.google.com/books?id=tp5IrLhWbTkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Almost nothing is known about the flags of Afghanistan during the reign of the Sadōzay dynasty and the early decades of the Moḥammadzay dynasty. Traditionally, nonstandard flags of different colors were used in wars. In the reign of Amir Dōst Moḥammad (1819-63) and Šēr ʿAlī Khan (1863-79; see AFGHANISTAN x) there existed triangular, red and green military flags bearing the words of the Islamic confession of faith (šahāda) as well as the names of the four caliphs and verses from the Koran relating to jehād “holy war,” all in white color (Gubar et al., p. 99-100; for illustrations depicting scenes of Anglo-Afghan battles with Afghans holding military flags, see, e.g., Roskoschny, pp. 20, 28, 308-9; Adamec, pp. 153, 198). http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/flags-ii --Officer (talk) 05:12, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
