Gomal-Pass

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The Gomal Pass, also Gumal Pass, linking Pakistan and Afghanistan and it is the only mountain pass, which is about midway between the Khyber Pass in the north and the Bolan Pass in the south. It is located in the southeastern part of Waziristan. He got his name from the nearby Gomal River.

The pass route leads along the Gomal River Valley in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The pass connects the towns of Ghazni in Afghanistan with Tank and Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan on Domandi and Kot Murtaza. The pass is an ancient trade route of nomadic Afghan traders, the so-called Powindahs who live between Kabul and Kandahar. The pass was not known until 1889. After that took place in 1894 Waziristan Expedition, British troops took over the area around Gomal.

Today, the entry of Afghanistan is subject to Pakistan over this pass restrictions. This probably is connected with Afghanistan after the end of the Hundred Years Durand Agreement in 1993, in which a boundary line, the Durand Line was established, again on a return of areas of the North-West Frontier Province, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA ) and North East Baluchistan of Pakistan is. These return requirement Pakistan has always refuses. For this reason, there is today no official border between the two countries.