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liminary subjugation of Bajaor and Swat, which lay on
the flank of their advance. The passes connecting the
Kunar Valley with Bajaor have, however, never been
crossed by a British force. Leaving the watershed at
a prominent point overlooking the ancient town of
Kunar, the boundary follows an irregular and undemarcated
 line through Mohmand territory, and across
the Kabul River, till it touches the Khaibar route near
our advanced post at Lundi Kotal. Here, then, Afghani.
stan and “British India actually touch. From Lundi
Kotal the boundary next rises to the summit of the
Safed Koh range (overlooking the Afridi Tirah), and

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Medieval Routes from Peshawur to Kabul.

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passes along the watershed of this grand array of
mountain-peaks till it drops to mark another junction
between Afghanistan and British India at the Peiwar
Kotal, on the Kuram route to Kabul. Cutting across
the head of the Kuram, it defines the southern watershed
of the river for some distance before reaching out across its
Kaitu affiuent to the well-defined frontier peak of Laram.
Across the head of the Tochi River, and round the
western border of Waziristan to Domandi on the Gomal,
where Afghanistan ends and Baluchistan begins, we need
hardly follow it in detail.
The principal feature to be noted about this boundary
from the Pamirs to the Gomal is that it is the boundary
of Afghanistan, and not that of India. Between it and