An insight into areas around Durand Line – the borderline dividing Pakistan and Afghanistan – their history and problems over many centuries and solutions applied. Read full article.
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History of Durand Line
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"And who so is saved from narrow-mindedness, such are they who are successful." - Al-Quran Yasir Hussain Sheikh is a serial Entrepreneur who lives and maintains his venture Al Rug from Lahore, Pakistan. He was also selected amongst Asia's 100 most promising young entrepreneurs and the only one in Trade category at that. He has been instrumental in setting up Danka to put Lahore on the cultural map of the world. He also provides consultancy services under the name PXLPRFCT. He used to write for many mainstream English newpapers and magazines, and Lahore metblog from the very start and now maintains his political braggings at Rug Pundits every once in a while. Besides that he loves chess, traveling, photography, movies, soccer and plays squash.Discussion
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The following article is a worthwhile read on the topic, you may also check the comments where a guy from Peshawar responds extensively:
http://www.economist.com/node/15173037/comments–
A story of Durand’s life in it which I didn’t know:
“Taliban! These are people who used to stand outside our door begging for food!” he says inside the crumbling mud walls of his ancestral fort, where Sir Henry Durand, a British lord of the frontier whose son drew the line that remains the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, met his fate in 1871. He was a victim not of treacherous tribesmen but of an elephant he was riding, which reared and brained him on a stone archway he was passing through.
And a remark on an English guy who lived in the area until his 80s. :
“The tribal areas was lawless only in the sense that there are no laws. But they have a certain way of going about things there,” says Major Geoffrey Langlands, 92, a British colonial officer who stayed on, serving as headmaster of North Waziristan’s only secondary school for a decade.
Posted by Jakob Steiner | February 21, 2010, 2:05 PM