The Wakhjir Pass connects Wakhan District to China being the only border crossing. This route is one of the centuries-old trade highways, the 'Silk Route' between Central, South and East Asia, and ...
A narrow strip, 350 km long and 34 km wide, located at very end of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Wakhan corridor is a legacy of 1893 Durand Line agreement drawn during the British era in order to ...
Four years ago, Brig. Gen. Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields.