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The Durand Line Agreement

Back in the day on November 12th, 1893, the Durand Line Agreement was signed between Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman and British colonial officer Henry Mortimer Durand. The seven articles of the agreement were signed in Kabul and set a 1,519 mile line of demarcation between Afghanistan and British colonial India. The Durand Line was imposed over the objections of most Afghans as Rahman was promised a subsidy in return for his support. Sir Henry, in drawing his line in the colonial sand, certainly held the memory of the two Anglo-Afghan wars that had taken place in the 19th century close in mind. The arbitrary border split the unconquerable Pashtun peoples apart and became a source of dissension between the Afghan and newly independent Pakistani governments throughout the twentieth century.

The Durand Line today represents a vastly underreported angle in the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The colonial legacy of British borders remain as open wounds as the colonizing knife of history is passed on.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history