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What if…
BRITAIN & RUSSIA HAD GONE TO WAR OVER AFGHANISTAN?
Russian troops would likely
have fared poorly against the
numbers and training of the
British Raj soldiers
● A regime is installed ● The Soviet Union is powerless ● A fortune is discovered ● The Durand Line is abolished
Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrows The Soviet Union, in its weakened Afghanistan signs bilateral co-operation treaties The Durand Line is abolished by
King Zahir Shah in a peaceful coup, and state and lacking access through with the US and European Union, who send agreement between Afghanistan and
installs a regime focusing on developing Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, trade missions and engineers to Kabul. The US Pakistan, who work out a new line of
Afghanistan’s vast natural resources and is powerless to contemplate an Geological Survey announces a discovery of $1 demarcation to the satisfaction of the
modernising the country’s infrastructure. invasion of Afghanistan. trillion in mineral wealth under Afghan soil. Pashtun tribes living on both sides. © Ian Hinley
17 July 1973 24 December 1979 11 September 2001 9 November 2015
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