PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHIEU PALEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC The Wakhan District—profiled in a February 2013 National Geographic magazine feature—is a narrow corridor of land jutting off the northeastern ...

Afghan authorities have initiated the second construction phase on the Wakhan gravel road in northern Afghanistan's ...

The Wakhan Corridor-a narrow strip of land carved during the colonial era-stands today as a haunting relic and a strategic vulnerability. It is an unchecked gateway through which Afghan-based ...

In a press release, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development said the 71 kilometers long and seven meters wide road was being graveled from Broghil to Bazhai Gonbad in Wakhan district.

An important development that went unnoticed by the Pakistan media radar was the construction of a 50-km stretch of the Silk Road, extending from the Wakhan district of Afghanistan to the Chinese ...

With the construction of a 50km stretch of the Silk Road, extending from the Wakhan district in Afghanistan to the Chinese border, Afghanistan has successfully established a direct link with China ...

A narrow strip, 350 km long and 34 km wide, located at very end of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Wakhan corridor is a legacy of 1893 Durand Line agreement drawn during the British era in ...

Women in parts of the district have been banned from working ... newly-donated Chinese motorbikes at a remote checkpoint in the Wakhan Corridor.Credit: Marta Pascual Juanola China is Afghanistan ...

KBUL (Pajhwok): Graveling work of the second phase of the Wakhan Road in northeastern Badakhshan province has begun at a cost ...