Kashgar's Afghan Frontier, the Wakhan Corridor, a Chinese Outpost in Tajikistan and the Taliban
South-west of Kashgar, past Tashkurgan, China touches Afghanistan. The border is only about 76 km long, high in the Pamirs at the end of the Wakhan Corridor, a thin strip of Afghan land that the British and the Russians drew in the 19th century to keep their empires apart…