History Shows the Khyber Pass Is the Key to AfghanistanAnalysis From Darius I and Alexander the Great onwards, the Khyber Passhas served as a...Omar Waraich
the historicKhyber Passis strategically important as the most easily negotiable route between Afghanistan and theIndian subcontinent. South of the Kābul River lies the east-west-trendingSpīn Ghar(Safīd Kūh) Range. The Kurram, Tochi, andGumalrivers drain the province’s southern region, and theIn...
After the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849, various methods were tried to keep the Khyber Pass open, including… Read More In Anglo-Afghan Wars …1878–80; 1919) in which Great Britain, from its base in India, sought to extend its control over neighbouring Afghanistan and to oppose...
The Khyber Pass is a road 33 miles long and just 50 feet wide at its narrowest point. It has been used as a hypodermic syringe for injecting armies and ideologies into the Indian sub-continent and then withdrawing loot ever since Alexander the Great marched through in the 4th century BC....
Introducing culture, history, language and literature of Chitrali people and those of the other neighbouring valleys. These include people living in Gilgit-Baltistan,Dir, Swat, Kohistan and Badakhshan.
An international network of trade expanded during Ashoka's reign under the Indo-Greek friendship treaty. Like the Khyber pass, on the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan became important port of trade and intercourse with the outside world. Greek states and Hellenic kingdoms in West Asia became ...
Everyone knows the basic story: Khyber, Eberron, and Siberys created the planes. Khyber killed Siberys and scattered his pieces in the sky, creating the Ring of Siberys. Eberron enfolded Khyber and became the world. Whether people believe this is literally true or a metaphor, everyone knows...
Afghanistan and Russia but did not end the rivalry between the two great powers. The British invaded Afghanistan once again and forced the Emir of Kabul to cede the areas east of the Khyber Pass. The Durand line separated British India from Afghanistan but was not recognized by the Afghans....
Stamp with the painting of Hari Singh Nalwa. At the beginning of the 19th century, a sovereign kingdom of the Sikhs emerged under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Expanding over the next decades, its territories at its zenith extended to the Khyber Pass in the northwest, to Kashmir, Ladakh & Mandi...
On the Afghan border with India – that most vulnerable corner of the empire – Russian Bolsheviks were plotting to export their revolution through the Khyber Pass. Having waved this warning flag, Ikbal Ali Shah came to the purpose of his letter: to offer the prime minister his ‘humble ...