The Wakhan Corridor along the Silk Route was the result of wrangling between empires.
From: Risking it all
The Brave Merchants of Wakhan, the ‘Other’ Afghanistan
Drivers put up with 5,000m high passes and extreme weather to deliver basic goods to Afghanistan’s isolated northeast.
19 Jun 2019
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