| 25 April | —On a decision of a district court of Feyzabad, the Badakhshan Province, a 29-year-old married woman is stoned to death. |
| 11-14 May | —Mass protests against the Americans’ barbaric treatment of the Holy Koran take place in Kabul and in ten out of 34 provinces. |
| 30 May | —President of the Maulawi Council Maulawi Abdullah Fayaz is killed in his office. |
| 31 May | —A suicide bomber blows himself up in a mosque in Kandahar during the memorial service for Maulawi Fayaz, killing 19 and wounding more than 50 people. |
| 19 August | —The country endorses a new national anthem with the following words “This is our sacred call: ‘Allah Aqbar! ‘Allah Aqbar!’” (God is great.—Ia.T.). |
| 20 October | —Women’s Rights editor Ali Mohaqiq Nasab is sentenced to two years in prison for publishing anti-Islamic articles. |
| 20 October | —About 4,000 Muslims take to the streets in the Khost Province, Eastern Afghanistan, to protest the murder of cleric Muhammad Khan in a mosque. |
| 27 October | —The government launches a campaign to enlist religious leaders to………………. |
