Balochistan, the British and the Great Game : the struggle for the Bolan Pass, gateway to India /

The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It occupies a position of great strategic importance between Pakistan, Afgh...

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Main Author: Heathcote, T. A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Hurst, 2015.
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