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Strategically located, traders, invaders, and nomadic tribes have also used it as a gateway to and from the Indian Subcontinent . The British took the threat of a Russian invasion of India via the Khyber and Bolan Passes very seriously so in 1837 , a British envoy was sent to Kabul to gain support of the Emir , Dost Mohammed . In February Of 1839 , the British Army under Sir John Keane took 12,000 men through the Bolan Pass and entered Kandahar , which the Afghan Princes had abandoned; from there they would go on to attack and overthrow Ghuznee . Traditionally, the Brahui of the Raisani tribe are in charge of the law and order situation through the Pass area. This tribe is still living in present day Balochistan in Pakistan . In 1879 at the close of the Second Afghan War , the Treaty Of Gandamak , the Bolan Pass was brought under British control; this was when the Sind-Pishin Railway was built by the British across the pass between Kandahar and Quetta . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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