Description

Badakshan and Wakhan was a historical region straddling the Pamir Mountains in what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan (Wakhan is today a region within the Afghan province of Badakhshan). During the “Great Game,” the competition between the Russian and British empires for power and influence in Central Asia, the two powers agreed, in 1873, to delimit their spheres of influence in the region at the Pamir and Panj Rivers―two headwaters of the Amu Darya. On the southern side of the territory, the Durand Line of 1893 established ...