The Afridis and the Shinwaris of the Pashtun clans (*) have traditionally exacted tolls on travelers passing through it, and Rudyard Kipling described it as "a sword cut through the mountains."
Victor Bayley constructed a railway rooted at Jamrud and Landi Khana through this region, and it was a key route on the Hippie Trail in the 1970s. The Afridis and the Shinwaris of the Pashtun clans (*) have traditionally exacted tolls on travelers passing through it, and Rudyard Kipling described it as "a sword cut through the mountains." Yhe path taken by the Mughals and Alexander the Great when conquering India, FTP, identify this trade route between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Victor Bayley constructed a railway rooted at Jamrud and Landi Khana through this region, and it was a key route on the Hippie Trail in the 1970s.
{Khyber Pass}