Perbatasan Afganistan–Pakistan atau lebih dikenalGaris Durand (bahasa Pashtun:د ډیورنډ کرښه) adalah batas internasional sepanjang 2,430-kilometer (1,510 mi) yang memisahkan antaraPakistan danAfghanistan. Garis ini diberlakukan sejak tahun 1896 antara SirMortimer Durand, seorang diplomatInggris dan pegawai negeri sipilBritish India, danAbdur Rahman Khan,Amir Afghanistan untuk memperjelas batas untuk memperbaiki batas bidang masing-masing dari pengaruh dan meningkatkan hubungan diplomatik dan perdagangan. Afghanistan dianggap oleh Inggris sebagai sebuahwilayah kerajaan mandiri waktu itu, meskipun Inggris tetap mengendalikan kepentingan luar negeri danhubungan diplomatik.
Kesepatan satu halaman bertanggal 12 November 1893, berisi tujuh artikel pendek, termasuk sebuah komitmen untuk tidak mencobamengganggu di luar Garis Durand.[1] Sebuah surveydemarkasi gabungan Inggris-Afghanistan berlangsung mulai tahun 1894, mencakup 800 mil garis batas.[2][3] Diresmikan menjelang penutupan "Great Game", garis yang dihasilkan didirikan Afghanistan sebagaizona penyangga antara kepentingan Inggris dan Rusia di wilayah tersebut.[4] Garis batas itu, seperti yang telah dimodifikasi sedikit olehPerjanjian Anglo-Afghan 1919, diwariskan oleh Pakistan.
^"The total length of the boundary which had been delimitated and demarcated between March 1894 and May 1896, amounted to 800 miles." The long stretch from theKabul River to China, including theWakhan Corridor, was declared demarcated by virtue of its continuous, distinct watershed ridgeline, leaving only the section near theKhyber Pass, which was finally demarcated in 1921:Brig.-Gen. SirPercy Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society (1940)."A History of Afghanistan Vol. II". London: MacMillan & Co. hlm. 182–188; 200–208. Diakses tanggal2009-12-05.Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
^An adjustment to the demarcation was made atArundu in the early 1930s:Hay, Maj. W. R. (October 1933). "Demarcation of the Indo-Afghan Boundary in the Vicinity of Arandu".Geographic Journal. LXXXII (4).
^"No Man's Land".Newsweek. United States. February 1, 2004. Diarsipkan dariversi asli tanggal 2008-04-08. Diakses tanggal2011-02-11.Where the imperialists' Great Game once unfolded, tribal allegiances have made for a "soft border" between Afghanistan and Pakistan—and a safe haven for smugglers, militants and terrorists
^"No change in stance on Durand Line: Faizi".Pajhwok Afghan News. October 24, 2012. Diarsipkan dariversi asli tanggal 2013-05-10. Diakses tanggal2013-04-11.But Afghanistan has never accepted the legitimacy of this border, arguing that it was intended to demarcate spheres of influence rather than international frontiers.
^Government & Politics: Overview Of Current Political Situation In AfghanistanDiarsipkan 2017-01-16 diWayback Machine."(3) The Durand Line is an unofficial porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 1893, the British and the Afghan Amir (Abdur Rahman Khan) agreed to set up the Durand line (named after the foreign Secretary of the Indian government, Sir Mortimer Durand) to divide Afghanistan and what was then British India.
