KHYBER PASS (SAFED KOH)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000700280001-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: MAP

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feet (red)
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North-West Frontier
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Stepping-stone between central Asia and
India, this frontier zone has been a corridor
of invasion since 1500 B.C. The present gov-
ernment administers a divided province:
"settled districts," and a semiautonomous
tribal area where many of the Pathan groups
reside (above). Inhabitants of both sections
live moctk, in houses built of mud and stone
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KNY13El~ PASS
(SAFE D KO
266 Terrain as fierce as its history, the Khyber Pass cuts a sinuous 20 mile pat ros_
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the Safed Koh, opening a trade route from Afghanistan to the Vale of Peshawar)
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