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The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is called the Durand Line, named after the Foreign Secretary of ( British Raj | British ) India Mortimer Durand in 1893.
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* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.
It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran – Pakistan border.
Brahui is spoken in the southwest region of Pakistan, as well as regions of Afghanistan and Iran which border Pakistan ; however, many members of the ethnic group no longer speak Brahui.
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The line laid the foundation not for peace between the border regions, but for heated disagreement between the governments of Afghanistan and British India, and later, Afghanistan and Pakistan over what came to be known as the issue of Pashtunistan or ' Land of the Pashtuns '.
The border of-Indo-East Pakistan border showed by the United States Army | U. S. Army, c. 1960.
Category: Iran – Pakistan border
These actions led to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif in the north followed by all the other cities, as the Taliban and al-Qaeda crossed over the porous Durand Line border into Pakistan.
In November 2011, NATO forces killed 24 Pakistani Army soldiers around the border region with Pakistan.
Its western border with Pakistan lies in the Punjab Plain and the Thar Desert.
Its western border with Pakistan extends up to 3, 323 km ( 2, 065 mi ), dividing the Punjab region and running along the boundaries of the Thar Desert and the Rann of Kutch.
The Afghan border with Pakistan, known as the Durand Line, was arbitrarily drawn by colonial officials of the British Empire in 1893 following the Second Afghan War.
The Durand Line was not intended as a permanent border, and clashes broke out in the 1950s and 1960s between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the issue.
Category: China – Pakistan border crossings
In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims on the one hand and Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.
* 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan ; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
After independence and dissolution of Empire, Independent and free Pakistan contested the southern boundary of Sindh, and a succession of border incidents resulted.
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The Afghan government expects to have the rail line extended to Kabul and then to the eastern border town of Torkham, connecting with Pakistan Railways.
Two broad gauge Pakistan Railways lines terminate near the border at Chaman in Balochistan near the Khojak Pass ; and at Torkham, the border town near the Khyber Pass.
The Thar Desert (, Hindi: थर मर ु स ् थल, ) also known as the Great Indian Desert ) is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent and forms a natural boundary running along the border between India and Pakistan.
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