‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎257] (274/578)

AFGHANISTAN—NO. XII—1893.
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including the Arnawai or Bashgal valley. The British Government also agrees
to leave to His Highness the Binnal tract as shown in the detailed map already
given to His Highness, who relinquishes his claim to the rest of the Waziri country
and Da war. HisHighness also relinquishes his claim to Chageh.
(4) The frontier line will hereafter be laid down in detail and demarcated
wherever this may be practicable and desirable by Joint British and Afghan
Commissioners, whose object will be to arrive by mutual understanding at a bound
ary which shall adhere with the greatest possible exactness to the line shown in
the map* attached to this agreement, having due regard to the existing local rights
of villages adjoining the frontier.
(5) With reference to the question of Chaman, the Amir withdraws his objec
tion to the new British Cantonment and concedes to the British Government
the rights purchased by him in the Sirkai Tilerai water. At this part of the fron
tier, the line will be drawn as follows :—
From the crest of the Khwaja Amran range near the Psha Kotal, which re
mains in British territory, the line will run in such a direction as to leave Murgha
Chaman and the Sharobo spring to Afghanistan, and to pass half way between
the New Chaman Fort and the Afghan outpost known locally as Lashkar Dand.
The line will then pass half way between the railway station and the hill known
as the Mian Baidak, and, turning southwards, will rejoin the Khwaja Amran
range, leaving the Gwasha Post in British territory, and the road to Shorawak
to the west and south of Gwasha in Afghanistan. The British Government will
not exercise any interference within half a mile of the road.
(6) The above articles of agreement are regarded by the Government of India
and His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan as a full and satisfactory settlement
of all the principal differences of opinion which have arisen between them in re
gard to the frontier ; and both the Government of India and His Highness the
Amir undertake that any differences of detail such as those which will have to
be considered hereafter by the officers appointed to demarcate the boundary
line, shall be settled in a friendly spirit, so as to remove for the future as far as
possible all causes of doubt and misunderstanding between the two Governments.
(7) Being fully satisfied of His Highness’s good will to the British Govern
ment, and wishing to see Afghanistan independent and strong, the Government
of India will raise no objection to the purchase and import by His Highness of
munitions of war, and they will themselves grant him some help in this respect.
Further, in order to mark their sense of the friendly spirit in which His Highness
the Amir has entered into these negotiations, the Government of India under
take to increase by the sum of six lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. a year the subsidy of twelve
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees now granted to His Highness.
H. M. Durand.
Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.
Kabul ;
12 th November 1893. . . . ~
* Not reproduced.