Recently, social and digital media in Pakistan and India have been abuzz with claims of Pakistan forcefully annexing the Wakhan Corridor to secure a land route to Central Asia. It coincided with ...

The regime wants to build a highway through the Wakhan Corridor, the narrow, rugged panhandle in the far northeast, to connect the Afghan heartland with China — and place itself at the center of ...

The reports of growing cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan into ... and India can occupy the Valley of Kashmir, why can't Pakistan take steps to control Wakhan corridor?

Contending with snow, cold, and a tired donkey, Paul Salopek takes his last steps in Afghanistan’s Wakhan corridor as he and photographer Matthieu Paley navigate the Irshad Pass into Pakistan.

The high-altitude valley, rising to 4,923 ... with regards to the Wakhan Corridor. The Wakhan Corridor is a critical strategic asset that provides Afghanistan with political and economic leverage ...

Pakistan on Thursday said Wakhan Corridor was Afghan territory, ending any speculation regarding the sovereignty of the mountain pass, connecting the landlocked nation to China through Xinjiang.

With no doctors or medicine, most people in Wakhan treat illnesses with mystical treatments or use opium, delivered by traders. Addiction has soared in recent years. Both the Wakhi and the Kyrgyz ...

One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

China has built a large military post on the Wakhan border, which is tasked with preventing the entry of extremist elements from Afghanistan into China's ethnic-dominated Xinjiang province.

He bought it from one of the locals during a mountaineering expedition in the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan and paid extra for the carved attachment hook as wood is scarce in the region.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday rebuffed the speculative reports claiming annexation of Wakhan Corridor, saying the territory is part of neighbouring Afghanistan. In a statement on Thursday ...

China has built a large military post on the Wakhan border, which is tasked with preventing the entry of extremist elements from Afghanistan into China’s ethnic-dominated Xinjiang province.