The Wakhan Corridor: A Buffer Whose Time Has Passed, and a Crossroads Whose Time Has Come

Tariq Saeedi The Wakhan Corridor is one of the strangest lines ever drawn on a map. — A narrow finger of Afghan territory some 350 kilometres long and, in places, barely 13 kilometres wide, it reaches out from Badakhshan Province to touch China’s Xinjiang region, separating Tajikistan to its north from Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan to its […]