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Article: The potent triangle: Empires, Islam and the Pamir region.
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Independent inland territories with three borders have long played an important part in Asian politics. Rebels have used them as spring boards to win empires. Defeated dynasties have used them for last stands, or as safe havens. And they have provided the illegitimate bases free from hot pursuit by any one neighbour, or easy ways to slip across a friendly border to find safety. Most important missionary-minded evangelists like Buddhists and Lamaists and Moslems have used them to radiate their beliefs outwards along any point of the compass, and to launch holy wars.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PAMIR TRIANGLE
The Pamir region, where Pakistan, India, China, the ...