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We were taking in the atmosphere at the Khyber Pass, with Afghanistan in the background.
MY husband's g/father was here in the late 1890's. Leave a Comment Address: Khyber Pass, Pakistan . |
Leave a Comment Directions: Khyber Pass, near Peshawar Other Contact: The scenery isn't that great, bu |
Near the narrowest point of the pass, about 15 Km from Jamrud is Ali Masjid and a large fort and a british cemetry. The valley walls bear insignia of British regiments that have served here. In the cemetery here are the graves of British soldiers killed in the Second Afghan War of 1879. This was the famous battle of Ali Masjid. Regimental insignia are carved and painted on to the rock faces at several places along the road, with the Gordon Highlanders, the South Wales Borderers, and the Royal Sussex, Cheshire and Dorset regiments standing in one doughty group. After the gorge, the pass opens out into a wide fertile valley dotted with Pashtun villages. True to form, however, these villages look more like forts, with high, crenellated mud walls running between watch-towers pierced with narrow gun slits.
The Ali Masjid Fort is located at the narrowest portion of the Khyber Pass, through which only a loaded mule or Camel could pass till as late as the mid nineteenth century. The fort was built by the British in 1890. The ruins of a Buddhist Stupa can also be seen in the area. Leave a Comment |
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The Khyber Pass is a 53-kilometer (33-miles) passage through the Hindu Kush mountain range. It connects the northern frontier of Pakistan with Afghanistan. At its narrowest point, the pass is only 3 meters wide. On the north side of the Khyber Pass rise the towering, snow-covered mountains of the Hindu Kush. The Khyber Pass is one of the most famous mountain passes in the World. It is one of the most important passes between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the best land route between India and Pakistan and has had a long and often violent history. Conquering armies have used the Khyber as an entry point for their invasions. It was also been a major trade route for centuries.Today, two highways thread their way through the Khyber Pass-one for motor traffic, and one for the traditional caravans. A railway line also travels to the head of the pass. Recently, the Khyber Pass has been used to transport refugees from the Afghan civil war into Pakistan, and transport arms into Afghanistan. The highway over the Khyber Pass links Kabul to Peshawar. Villages lie on each side of the Khyber Pass. The people of the Khyber Pass are mainly Pashtuns. Leave a Comment |
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The famous Khyber pass. More info and pics at my peshawar page (in the near future) Leave a Comment |
a drive to the afghan border along the kyber pass road takes you back in time to years of history. on the outskirts of Peshawar you can see the refugee villages where afghani people have lived for many years. They are quite a sobering site, even after having seem poverty in India and south east asia.
The KP snakes its way through the mountains towards the afghan border, which opens up a moon like envirnment and a vast seemingly emptyness beyond yonder. its an eerie feeling to look out on afgahnistan, where so much has happened in the last few years, and much more is likely to continue for years to come....its like stareing at the final frontier Leave a Comment |
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