‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎258] (275/578)

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AFGHANISTAN—NOS. Xlll—1893 AND XIV—1894.
No. XIII.
Letter from Sir Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., to His Highness Amir
Abdur Rahman Khan, G.C.S.I., Amir of Afghanistan and its Dependen
cies, dated Kabul, the 11th November 1893.
After compliments .—When Your Highness came to the throne of Afghanistan,
Sir Lepel Griffin was instructed to give you the assurance that, if any Foreign
Power should attempt to interfere in Afghanistan, and if such interference should
lead to unprovoked aggression on the dominions of Your Highness, in that event
the British Government would be prepared to aid you to such extent and in such
manner as might appear to the British Government necessary in repelling it,
provided that Your Highness followed unreservedly the advice of the British Gov
ernment in regard to your external relations.
I have the honour to inform Your Highness that this assurance remains in
force, and that it is applicable with regard to any territory which may come into
your possession in consequence of the agreement which you have made with me
to-day in the matter of the Oxus frontier.
It is the desire of the British Government that such portion of the northern
frontier of Afghanistan as has not yet been marked out should now be clearly
defined ; when this has been done, the whole of Your Highness’s frontier towards
the side of Russia will be equally free from doubt and equally secure.
No. XIV.
Agreement by Shirindil Khan as attested by Mr. Donald regarding the
Afghan-Kurram frontier,— 1894.
The division of the frontier of the two allied States, i.e., the God-granted
Kingdom of Afghanistan and the illustrious Government of India, between the
Jajis and Turis, Khostis and Turis and Khostis and Waziris from Sikaram Sar to
the Laram peak according to the map which was prepared at the Capital, Kabul,
on the 2nd Jamadi-ul-awal 1311 H., corresponding to 12th November 1893, on
the occasion of the visit of the Mission to His Highness the Amir, has been made
as follows :—
The line of boundary starts from the Sikaram peak and descends along the
Azghanni watershed and thence runs along the watershed to Bargawi. From
Bargawi it runs along the watershed (of) Gabzan Sar to the Peiwar Kotal and these
watersheds separate the waters (drainage) of Hariob and Kurram. From the
Peiwar Kotal (the boundary line) runs along the same watershed to Manri Kandao
and reaches Kimatai Kotal. From Kimatai Kotal (it runs) along the watershed
of the spur of the hill north and east between Istia and Kurram and (through)
Margho Kandao, Mandatti Kandao, Dre Drang, Spare Gawi, Bar Tangi Sar, Bahlol
Sar and Kharpachu Sar near the Istia Nullah. From these it descends from the
abo\e-mentioned watershed and joins the Istia Nullah, and in this way goes along
the above-mentioned ravine till it (reaches) the (limits) of the culturable lands
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