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Durand line (a 2640 Kms. border ) was originally established in 1893 as the international border between British India and the Emirate of Afghanistan by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat of Indian Civil Service, and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Afghan Emir, to fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations. He was sent to secure control of strategic Khyber pass, negotiate agreement to delineate the border between Afghanistan and British India.      The new border, dubbed the Durand line, divided the Pashtun tribal lands into two. Half of the Pashtun tribal region became part of British India, and the other half remained as part of Afghanistan. Afghanistan governs all the Pashtuns on one side of Durand line, while Pakistan governs all the Pashtuns on the other. Officials who drew the Durand line didn't consider the ethnic groups who lived in the region, today there are many battles along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. On o