The Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup was an annual football tournament held in Ghazi Stadium , Afghanistan . The football tournament was part of a festival of sporting and cultural events staged annually in Kabul from 1974 till 1977 to commemorate the anniversary of the Republic of Afghanistan , following its foundation on 17 July 1973 when Mohammad Daoud Khan came to power following the 1973 Afghan coup d'état . It was stopped following Daoud's assassination on 28 April 1978 during a coup d'état (the Saur Revolution ) which formed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . The anniversary of the Saur Revolution was also celebrated with a similar Jashn festival later on in 1979, which was won by Pamir Dushanbe for the fifth consecutive time. The 1976 edition also featured the official national teams of India and Pakistan .
3-529: The festival was referred to as Jashn-e-Jamhouriat ( lit. ' Republic festival ' ), Jashn-e-Kabul , or simply Jashn . It was also referred to in the Kabul Times newspaper as the Jame-Jamhouriat Cup ( lit. ' Republic Day Cup ' ), or as Jamhouriat Cup . Details Details Details Details This article about an association football competition within
6-609: Is offered in both print and online formats. Following the Saur Revolution , The Kabul Times was renamed Kabul New Times and began to print Communist rhetoric that was reminiscent of days during the Cold War and was highly confrontational towards Western culture . The paper briefly stopped publication during the US-led invasion , resuming in March 2002. Following the fall of Kabul to
9-539: The area covered by the Asian Football Confederation is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Kabul Times Daily The Kabul Times Daily ( Dari : روزنامه کابل تایمز ; Pashto : کابل ټایمز ورځپاڼه ) is a state-run English-language newspaper in Afghanistan , initially established on February 27, 1962, as The Kabul Times . As of 2018 , it had a daily circulation of 47,000 and
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