The flag of Afghanistan during 1928, from where the traditional Afghan tricolor stems from
The traditional black-red-green tricolor that is featured in many of Afghanistan's former flags may have not been influenced by the flag of the Weimar Republic after KingAmanullah Khan had paid a visit to that specific country, but rather as a combination of two of Amanullah Khan's black and red standards, which were later made as one flag, to which the green was later added as an additional part of Afghan symbolism.
This showcases that one empire is unable to be the sole founding state, due to many other predecessors and other Afghan states existing, to which all claims at once is unable to work. Moreover, the Hotak dynasty did not unite all Pashtuns, nor did it unify all modern-day ethnic groups in Afghanistan, but would also fight against other Pashtun tribes, specifically the Abdalis of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat.
We can trace the first ever independence of modern-day Afghanistan to the Durrani Empire, and not the Hotak dynasty. This can be said due to the Hotak dynasty being conquered by a foreign power, Afsharid Iran. Whereas, there were no foreign rulers after the reign of Ahmad Shah Durrani of the Durrani Empire, as all rulers were Afghans (native) who preceded and succeeded one another without a foreign line of disruption.
Coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani in July 1747, which led to the founding of modern-day Afghanistan
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