The treaty would last for five years in the first instance, and at the end of that period it would be terminable at six months' notice.

This friendship with India does not find reflection in Afghanistan's relations with Pakistan.

Afghanistan develops closer relations during the year with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

On 17 July 1950, the USSR and Afghanistan signed a 4-year Trade Agreement providing for duty-free transit of Afghan goods through Soviet territory.

The prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, in disclosing that a protest has been sent to Kabul on what he describes as the culminating incident in a number of minor frontier violations, declares that Pakistan is willing to discuss economic and cultural questions of common concern to the two countries.