Editing Durand Line (section)

=== Demarcation surveys on the Durand Line ===
The initial and primary demarcation, a joint Indo-Afghan survey and mapping effort, covered {{convert|800|mi|km|order=flip}} and took place from 1894 to 1896. Detailed [[Topography|topographic]] maps locating hundreds of boundary demarcation pillars were soon published and are available in the [[Survey of India]] collection at the [[British Library]].<ref name="Sykes">{{cite web
 |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=184%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
 |title=A History of Afghanistan, Vol. II
 |author=Brig.-Gen. Sir [[Percy Sykes]], K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographic Society
 |publisher= Macmillian & Co. Ltd.
 |location=London
 |date=1940
 |pages=182–188, 200–208
 |access-date=5 December 2009}}</ref>

The complete 20-page text of these detailed joint Indo-Afghan demarcation surveys is available in several sources.<ref name="Prescott">{{cite book
 |title=Map of Mainland Asia by Treaty
 |author=Prescott, J. R. V.
 |publisher=Melbourne University Press
 |location=Carlton, Victoria
 |isbn=978-0-522-84083-4
 |pages=182–208
 |author-link=John Robert Victor Prescott|year=1975
 }}</ref><ref name="Janjua">{{cite web
 |url         = http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Jun/09Jun_Janjua.pdf
 |title       = In the Shadow of the Durand Line; Security, Stability, and the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan
 |author      = Muhammad Qaiser Janjua
 |publisher   = Naval Postgraduate School
|location=Monterrey, California
|date=2009
 |pages       = 22–27, 45
 |access-date  = 14 December 2009
|url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110720015319/http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Jun/09Jun_Janjua.pdf
 |archive-date = 20 July 2011
}}</ref>

In 1896, the long stretch from the [[Kabul River]] to China, including the Wakhan Corridor, was declared demarcated by virtue of its continuous, distinct watershed ridgeline, leaving only the section near the [[Khyber Pass]] to be finally demarcated in the treaty of 22 November 1921, signed by [[Mahmud Tarzi]], "Chief of the Afghan Government for the conclusion of the treaty" and "[[Henry Dobbs|Henry R. C. Dobbs]], Envoy Extraordinary and Chief of the British Mission to Kabul."<ref name="Prescott" />
A very short adjustment to the demarcation was made at [[Arundu]] (Arnawai) in 1933–34.<ref name=Hay/><ref name="Prescott"/>