Treaty of Gandamak

The Treaty of Gandamak was concluded on 26 May 1879 between the British Government and Amir Mohammad Yakub Khan of Afghanistan, signed for Britain by Major Louis Cavagnari, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. In ten articles it declared perpetual peace and friendship and an amnesty for Afghans who had dealt with the British forces. The Amir agreed to conduct his relations with foreign states according to British advice and not to make engagements with them without British concurrence, and in return Britain promised support against foreign aggression. A British Representative was to reside at Kabul with an escort, the Amir could send an agent to the Viceroy of India, and a telegraph line from Kurram to Kabul was to be built at British cost. Trade roads were to be kept open under a separate commercial treaty. Britain restored Kandahar and Jalalabad but kept the districts of Kurram, Pishin and Sibi under its protection and administrative control as assigned districts, kept control of the Khyber and Michni Passes, and agreed to pay the Amir an annual subsidy of six lakhs of rupees.