‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎260] (277/578)

Kotkai :
The 21st November 1894.
AFGHANISTAN—NO. XV—1895.
determined, fixed and marked out as above with mutual understanding the above*
mentioned boundary line from the aforesaid Sikaram Sar to the aforesaid Laram
peak on the 22nd Jamadi-ul-awal 1312 H., corresponding to the 21st of November
1894 (and declare) it correct. Ends.
Further, it is written that the details of the above-mentioned demarcation
are entered in detail on a separate map w r hich accompanies this record. Ends.
J. Donald,
Officer on Special Duty, and British
Boundary Commissioner,
Indo-Afghan-Kurram Boundary.
No. XV.
Agreement defining the boundary line from the Hindu Kush to the neighbour
hood of Nawa Kotal, dated Camp Nashagam, the 9th April 1895—13th
Shawal 1312.
For as much as, under Article (4) of the Convention concluded at Kabul on the
12th November 1893, between His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and Sir
Mortimer Durand on behalf of the Government of India, we, the undersigned-
have been appointed by our respective Governments for the purpose of demar
eating in concert the frontier of His Highness the Amir’s dominions on the side of
India in this neighbourhood of Chitrar and Bajaur, it is hereby agreed as follows :—
(I) That on the western side of the Kunar river, this frontier will be the further
or eastern watershed of the stream which in the idiom of Afghans is notorious
and known as the Landai Sin pertaining to the limits of Kafiristan, and w T hich in
the Survey map is also written by the name of Bashgal, so that all the country
of which the drainage falls into the Kunar river by means of this stream belongs,
and will belong, to Afghanistan, and the eastern drainage of this watershed, which
does not fall into the Landai Sin stream, pertains to Chitrar.
(II) That on the eastern side of the Kunar river, from the river bank, up to
the crest of the main range which forms the watershed between the Kunar river
* BarauLof our quarter and tlie countr 3 r ( ]it - direction) of Barawml* and Bajaur
inch map this frontier follow's the southern watershed of the
R. U[dn\]. Arnawai stream wdiich falls into the Kunar river close
to the village of Arnawmi, leaving to Chitrar all the
country of which the drainage falls into the Kunar river by means of this stream,
while the southern drainage of this last-mentioned watershed, which does not
fall into the Arnawai stream, pertains to Afghanistan.
(III) That this frontier line, on reaching the crest of the main range which
in this neighbourhood forms the watershed betw r een the Kunar river and the
country (lit. direction) of Barawal and Bajaur, turns southward along this water
shed, which it follows as far as a point in the neighbourhood of the Nawa Kotal,