DURAND LINE PAKISTAN & AFGHANISTAN ANOTHER GEO-POLITICAL PROBLEM SARASIJ MAJUMDER Do you see this brownish area between Pakistan and Afghanistan? This brown area is spread across both Pakistan and Afghanistan. This area is of the Pashtuns. Most of the Pashtun people live in this area. And the Durand Line is passing through this brown area. The Durand Line is Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) boundary. It is the consequence of an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a British Indian government secretary, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghanistan’s the then Emir, or ruler. On November 12, 1893, in Kabul, Afghanistan, the agreement was signed. The Durand Line has been the formal border between the two countries for almost a century, yet it has caused controversy today among the people who live there. The British India thought that Tsarist Russia can any day take over Afghanistan. This line was to stop Russia at Afghanistan. Most historians agree that t