The Bolan Pass

This mountain pass is located in western Pakistan and has been used as a gateway to and from South Asia. The pass, which connects Jacobabad and Sibi with Quetta, was important to the history of the British campaigns in Afghanistan. Related BRANCH Articles: Antoinette Burton, “On the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-42: Spectacle of Disaster”; Zarena Aslami, “The Second Anglo-Afghan War, or The Return of the Uninvited”