Such strategic vulnerabilities of the Wakhan Corridor, offer India a perfect geopolitical lever to counterbalance Beijing's regional ambitions. For Pakistan, Wakhan corridor is critical for the ...

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 ...

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 ...