"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٢‎١‎٩] (٥٧٨/٢٣٦)

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to the south of this part of the river. By the other agreement a
thoroughly friendly understanding was arrived at as regards the Indo-
Afghan fiontier. The Amir retained Asmar and was given the Birmal
valley. Also, to mark their sense of the friendly spirit in which the
Amir had entered into the negotiations, the Government of India raised
his subsidy to eighteen lakhs of rupees a year, granted him full permis
sion to import munitions of war, and promised him some help in this
respect as a gift. On the other hand, the Amir agreed that the eastern
and southern frontiers of his dominions, from Wakhan to the Persian
border, should follow the line shown in the map attached to the agree
ment, and that he would at no time exercise interference in Swat,
Bajaur, or Chitral. His Highness also relinquished his claim to
Chagai.
Besides the two above agreements the Amir received from Sir
Mortimer Durand a letter, dated the 11th November 1893 (No. XIII),
informing him that the assurance given to him by the British Govern
ment in regard to his territory, when he had come to the throne in 1880,
remained still in force and was applicable to any territory which might
come into his possession in consequence of his agreement with the British
Government regarding the upper Oxus frontier.
The work of demarcation of the Indo-Afghan frontier as defined in
the agreement of November 1893 was divided into sections, and was
carried out for the most part by joint commissions during the years
1894-1896, the only portion of the frontier remaining undemarcated
being a small section in the vicinity of the Mohmand country and the
Khyber. The Afghan-Waziristan boundary from Domandi to Laram
was demarcated by British officers at the special request of the Amir.
The Agreement regarding 1 the Afghan-Kurram frontier was con
cluded (No. XIV) in November 1894: an Agreement concluded in April
1895 (No. XV) defined the boundary line from the Hindu Kush to the
neighbourhood of Nawa Kotal: and the Afghan-Baluch boundary from
Domandi to the Persian border was demarcated (No. XVI) in 1894 and
1895.
In 1894 the Hon. G. N. Curzon (afterwards Lord Curzon of Kedles-
ton) visited Kabul on the invitation of the Amir, and‘spent a fortnight
there as the Amir’s guest. He was permitted by the Amir to visit
Kandahar and to return to India via New Cham an.
In 1895 the Amir deputed his second son, Shahzada Nasrulla Khan,
to pay his respects to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, the Amir’s own
state of health having prevented him from undertaking a journey to
England in person.
In March 1895, after prolonged negotiations, Notes (Nos. XVII and
XVIII) were exchanged between the British and Russian Governments