Sunday, July 15, 2012
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: 1070 m or 3510 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 ...
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