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.

Nevertheless, the region's geopolitical and geo-economic importance, rumors regarding Pakistan annexing Wakhan, and kinetic actions against TTP inside Afghanistan are interlinked. The northeastern ...

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 ...

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.

Trade and transit directly to China through the Wakhan Corridor is a long-held dream for Afghan governments, but the logistics remain a major hurdle. Developments in two areas – Afghanistan ...

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 ...

Shafqat Ali Khan denies reports of annexation, saying Pakistan recognises Afghanistan sovereignty and territorial integrity ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan on Thursday ...