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circumstances were in of the different and less simple degree. In the
before puts the frontier it was 800 miles long, and it was inhabited from Afghan
tribe that was more raiders and unmanageable of the Beloochees;
not only they was independent from each other, but to a large extent
gives credit to any fidelity to the Ameer of Cabul. Disputes of border
it owed therefore to be established with individual heads; and no opportunities
you/he/she was offered for our mediation in inside arguments, or for united accord
on external policy, as you/he/she was brought defeasible so with happened by Sandeman in
Beloochistan. There was not any general federation with which we could enter
in negotiation. As a consequence, we was forced to maintain, a
the great strength and places strengthened along the frontier; and very punitive
the consignments became necessary against without law offending at times
tribe. Anchor, on the whole one, and in consideration of the difficulties of the
situation, the policy of the conciliation, benefits and of not-
interference with their inside business, gradually succeeded; raids
once chronic it became unusual, and you/he/she was given rather with as you argue
of policy of frontier that of war. [The footnote: Sees Parliamentary Papers:
_Afghanistan,_ 1878, page 30 and _Beloochistan,_ No 3, 1878.]
You/he/she must also have remembered, as an additional complication that in
annexing the Punjaub, even if essentially is the country of the
Sikhs that is Hindoos that the inhabitants of the districts of trans-Indus are
to a large extent what has called Punjaubee Mussulmen, or, Afghan,
in run, religion and language.
From what has been said as to our distributions with the tribes of border, it
it will be evident that while our difficulties were continuous and often
serious, anchor, they was mainly local; and what the defense of the
I reign on that frontier against foreign aggression depended in a great
you measure on our relationships with the rule of same Afghanistan. When Dost
Mahomed, after the great war he/she returned in 1843 to his/her first position as