The following lists events that happened during 1903 in Afghanistan. The year passes quietly, without any internal disturbances, and nothing more is heard, or at least made public, about the attempt of Russia to establish direct intercourse between its own and the Afghan frontier officials for commercial purposes. The amir appoints his brother, , commander-in-chief, and he orders the construction of a line of fortified serais from Dacca to Kabul, from Kabul to , in Badakhshan, from Kabul to the Oxus, and from Balkh to Bala Murghab, on the Russian frontier.