Durand Line
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Key facts
- Entities
- Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Length
- 2,640 km (1,640 mi)
- Established
- 12 November 1893, Signing of the Durand Line Agreement at the end of the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Current shape
- 8 August 1919, Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 ratified at the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War
- Treaties
- Treaty of Gandamak , Durand Line Agreement, Treaty of Rawalpindi
via Wikipedia infobox
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The Durand Line, also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,640-kilometre (1,640 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border with China.
The Durand Line was established in 1893 as the international border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Indian Empire by Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat of the Indian Civil Service, and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Emir of Afghanistan, to fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations and trade. Britain considered Afghanistan to be an independent state at the time, although they controlled its foreign affairs and diplomatic relations.