khyber pass

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the Khyber Pass

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{i} extremely important narrow mountain pass that connects Pakistan with Afghanistan

the Khyber Pass a steep road that goes through mountains and joins Pakistan and Afghanistan. For centuries it was the main road to India from the West. Pass in the Spn Ghr (Safd Kh) Range on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. About 33 mi (53 km) long, it has historically been the gateway for invasions of the Indian subcontinent from the northwest; it was traversed by Persians, Greeks, Mughals, and Afghans from the north and by the British from the south. The Pashtun Afridi people of the Khyber area long resisted foreign control, but during the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879, the Khyber tribes came under British rule. It is now controlled by Pakistan

a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India