Pakistan in the Pamir Knot: Geostrategic Imperatives |
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... century , Islam had spread east of the Pamirs , and Wakhan became a tributary of the Muslims and paid 20,000 dirhams . " From the tenth to the thirteenth century various Turkic people established their ascendency over Samarkent and ...
... century , Islam had spread east of the Pamirs , and Wakhan became a tributary of the Muslims and paid 20,000 dirhams . " From the tenth to the thirteenth century various Turkic people established their ascendency over Samarkent and ...
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... century , the Wakhan was ruled by its ' Mir ' - Mohammad Rahim Khan , whose major source of revenue also was slave trading between Chitral and Turkestan . Pure geographic hurdles had much to do with the West's ignorance of Central Asia ...
... century , the Wakhan was ruled by its ' Mir ' - Mohammad Rahim Khan , whose major source of revenue also was slave trading between Chitral and Turkestan . Pure geographic hurdles had much to do with the West's ignorance of Central Asia ...
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... century term depicting a century long rivalry between Russia and British India for control of Central Asia . According to John Keay , the term became popular in the 1870's , obsessed the minds and dictated the policies of those who ...
... century term depicting a century long rivalry between Russia and British India for control of Central Asia . According to John Keay , the term became popular in the 1870's , obsessed the minds and dictated the policies of those who ...
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