Durand Line

English

Etymology

After Mortimer Durand, who drew the original version of the line.

Proper noun

Durand Line

  1. The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (originally with British India), as originally demarcated in 1893 and revised in 1919; never accepted by Afghanistan as the international border.
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