Current symbolism
The current flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is a plain white flag with the black words of the ''shahada'' in the centre. The white stands for “the (Islamic Movement of Taliban’s) purity of faith and government”; the flag incorporated the ''shahada'', the Islamic declaration of faith, after 1997. The current national flag differs from the banners of other jihadist groups, including those of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, in having white as its chief colour and the ''shahada'' in black, an inversion of the design of the coloring of most jihadist groups' banners. This current Afghan flag likely was inspired by the historic Umayyad caliphate, which began the Moslem conquest of the Indian subcontinent, the ''Ghazwa-e-Hind'': Islam entered Afghanistan with the Umayyad invasion, begun in 663-665 A.D. as a prelude to the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana from 673 to 751 A.D.Islamic Republic tricolor
The national flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan set out in the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan, 2004 Constitution consists of a vertical tricolor with the classical Emblem of Afghanistan, National Emblem in the center. The latest version was adopted on August 19, 2013, but many similar tricolor designs had been in use throughout most of the 20th century, starting in 1928. Due to the Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, lack of diplomatic recognition of the Taliban government, this tricolor remains in use by most diplomatic missions of Afghanistan, despite the overthrow of the Islamic Republic in 2021. It is also used by the Afghan diaspora and Republican insurgency in Afghanistan, republican insurgents, and is considered a symbol of resistance within the country.History of Afghanistan's tricolor flags
The black color represents its troubled 19th century history as a British protectorate, protected state, the red color represents the blood of those who fought for independence (specifically, the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919), and the green represents hope and prosperity for the future. Some have alternatively interpreted the black to represent history, the red to represent progress, and the green to represent either agricultural prosperity or Islam. The tricolor was supposedly inspired by the King of Afghanistan, Afghan King Amanullah Khan when visiting Europe with his wife in 1928. The original horizontal tricolor design was based on that of the Weimar Republic-era flag of Germany. Almost every Afghan tricolor flag since 1928 has had the Emblem of Afghanistan in the center. Almost every emblem has had a mosque in it, which first appeared in 1901, and wheat, first appearing in 1928. The last tricolor flag took its current form in 2002 with modifications later on in 2004 and 2013, with some variants containing differing coloured emblems. Following the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after the Fall of Kabul (2021), Fall of Kabul in 2021, protests took place in Jalalabad and other cities, where protesters were seen waving Afghan tricolor flags protesting its removal in defiance of Taliban rule, due to the reinstatement of the white Shahada flag and the abolishment of the former black, red, and green tricolor flag. The tricolor flag was used by the Afghanistan at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Afghan delegation at the 2020 Summer Paralympics between 25 August and 5 September 2021, as well as at the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, 2021 Cricket T20 World Cup between 26 October and 4 November 2021, both after the fall of Kabul. The color video approximations (valid for flags 1928–1978 and 1980–2021) are listed below:Other flags
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Historical flags
See also
*Afghan rebel flags *Emblem of Afghanistan *Flags of AsiaNotes
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