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MALAKAND PASS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 461 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALAKAND PASS , a See also:

mountain pass in the See also:North-See also:West See also:Province of See also:India, connecting the See also:British See also:district of See also:Peshawar with the See also:Swat Valley. It is now a military See also:post and the See also:head-quarters of a See also:political agency. It came into prominence for the first See also:time in 1895 during the See also:Chitral See also:campaign, when 7000 Pathans held it against See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Low's advance, but were easily routed. After the campaign was over a fortified See also:camp was formed on the Malakand to guard the road to Chitral. During the frontier risings of 1897 the Swatis made a determined attack on the Malakand, where 700 were killed, and on the adjacent post of Chakdara, where 2000 were killed. This was the origin of the Malakand Expedition of the same See also:year.

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