Download "The Khyber Pass (Pakistan/Afghan border 1990)"

ATTENTION / CAUTION / VORSICHT / 注意危險 / حذر / PRECAUTION / ATENCAO / 주의! / Watch this movie only if you are interested by Pakistan in 1990. I have retrieved this old film of my trip in the north of Pakistan. It's not actual, but may be someone will be interested by theses old footage. The complete serie is composed of 9 videos The road from Islamabad to Peshawar (Pakistan 1990) The Khyber Pass (Pakistan/afghan boarder 1990) The streets and the bazars of Peshawar (in 1990) From Peshawar to Chitral ( East Pakistan 1990) The Bamburet valley (East Pakistan 1990) From Chitral to Gilgit (North-East Pakistan 1990) The Karakorum Higway and the Hunza valley (North Pakistan1990) From Gilgit to Islamabad via Babusar pass (North Pakistan 1990) Visit of Lahore (Pakistan 1990) The Khyber Pass, (also spelled Khaiber or Khaybar; Urdu: درہ خیبر) (altitude: 1,070 m or 3,510 ft) is the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. The summit of the Khyber Pass is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inside Pakistan at Landi Kotal and it cuts through the northeastern part of the Safed Koh mountains which themselves are a far southeastern extension of the Hindu Kush range. In some versions of the Aryan migration theory, the Indo-Aryans migrated to India via the Khyber Pass. Recorded invasions through the Khyber begin with the conquests of Darius I and Alexander the Great and also include later Muslim invasions of South Asia, culminating with the establishment of the Mughul Empire from 1526. The British invaded Afghanistan from India and fought three Afghan Wars in 1839-42, 1878-80, and 1919. George Molesworth, a member of the British force of 1919, summarised: "Every stone in the Khyber has been soaked in blood." Rudyard Kipling called it "a sword cut through the mountains." To the north of the Khyber Pass lies the country of the Mullagoris. To the south is Afridi Tirah, while the inhabitants of villages in the Pass itself are Afridi clansmen. Throughout the centuries the Pashtun clans, particularly the Afridis and the Afghan Shinwaris, have regarded the Pass as their own preserve and have levied a toll on travellers for safe conduct. Since this has long been their main source of income, resistance to challenges to the Shinwaris' authority has often been fierce. The pass became widely known to thousands of Westerners and Japanese who traveled it in the days of the Hippie trail, taking a bus or car from Kabul or the Afghan border, on the Pakistani side. People were advised not to wander away from the road; a quick daylight passage was then made. Monuments left by British Army units, as well as hillside forts, could be viewed from the highway. The area of the Khyber Pass has been connected with a counterfeit arms industry, making various types of weapons known to gun collectors as Khyber Pass Copies, using local steel and blacksmiths' forges During current war in Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass has been a major route for resupplying NATO forces in the Afghan theater of conflict. Recognizing this, the Taliban attempted to choke off the route in late 2008 and early 2009, bringing the Taliban into conflict with the Pakistani government.[3] In February of 2009, a bridge 15 miles northwest of Peshawar was blown up by militants presumably sympathetic to or sponsored by the Taliban. While it was not considered to be a major strategic blow to the allied war effort, it invigorated efforts to secure additional supply routes, some of which may ultimately run through Iran. However, the current general consensus is that the new supply route will pass through various central Asian republics to the north of Afghanistan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyber_pass Merci à AKJM