A Journey Along Pakistan's Historic Khyber Pass (2000)
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- Up the Khyber Pass (2000) - Tourists and smugglers alike are now following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and the British Raj.
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Surrounded by the mountain shadows, the railway cuts through amazing rocky inclines. The pass still looks like and indeed is a wild frontier, existing largely beyond the laws of Pakistan. When the train is not running, an army of smugglers can be seen marching down the track carrying TVs, stereos, drugs and guns to trade in Peshawar. The Khyber Pass Steam Safari rides under the protection of local militias, out to spot passing Pashtun tribesman and smugglers taking potshots at the train. The Khyber Rifles are still stationed in the Pass, although today they concern themselves with dancing for tourists. Beyond the guards of the Khyber Rifles lies Afghanistan, and the end of the line. A sumptious report offering spectacular scenery and rich history.
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I am still living here. It changed alot. Specialy in last 20 years. As government continues did search operation, so there is no more drug and guns. The railway tracks is badly effected by floods. Because of it i never seen train on this tracks nearly for 20 years.
I am not good in english but i hope everyone understood. At the end of the video, the train is passing through 2 tunnels, our house is just across these tunnels.
So it's in Pakistan?
@dahirking Yes, It is
My great grandmother's family migrated first to Bombay and then to Peshawar from Iraq under the British Raj. I suspect ours was one of the very few Jewish families in NWFP. My great grandmother ended up marrying a local Hindu man and thus subsequently the family moved back to present day India again upon the partition of the country. I don't know much about my family's history in Peshawar but do know that they lived there for around 10 years in the 1920s. Watching this video opens up a world that I would dearly want to explore but haven't yet. One day, maybe I'd be able to see my great grandmother and great grandfather's house in Peshawar.
jewish hindu couple so rare
@@gweher43 Not really. I know many Jewish Hindu couples in the UK and the US.
+@Devyan Utsav
Why only 2 options? May be Fed_Express is neither a hindu nor a jew.
What a fascinating comment and tale. What was the reason for the migration to Peshawar ? I can only imagine there were very very few Jewish people in that area at that time (although perhaps more than today). At that time, it would not have, ethnically and tribally, been very different from today - primarily Pashtun tribes. And when your great grandmother fled from Iraq under the British Raj, had she fled from a Jewish community there ? Do you still have, perhaps, extended family in Iraq ?
Wow your story seems very interesting, my family also moved during partition. How was your life in India
Every time I watch one of these old travel videos I can’t help but wonder what it’s like there today.
Well you can type Khyber pass or Peshawar on TH-cam you can see how it is today, plenty of tourist visiting Peshawar and doing vlogs there, im planning to visit there but im more intrested in the far north of pakistan, the famous hunza valley probably the best valley in the world
not that different
I visited it in 2018 and the floods had destroyed the train track. I think it was later restored and the safari trains are on the move again. I still have about two weeks left in Pak, so a good idea to visit it again
Politically I believe the tribal areas have been abolished and are now under the control of the federal government
@@kayzeazano it's still the tribal areas of Pashtun tribe. Government has no actual rule over Pashtun tribes
My mom was an Afghan lady... I wish if I could visit Afghanistan 💖
Are you Hindu?
You seem to be a hybrid 😂
Our family was from Lahore before Partition. My Maternal grandfather ( Nanaji) servd as assistant station master at Landi kotal. He used to tell us real life experiences at Railway Station. Whatever I see in this video corroborates his life and daily routine at Landi Kotal. We , as a child used to listen interesting facts about life at remote places. He also remained at Pasrur, Daska, Mandi Bahudin, Sialkot. After partition he was posted at Ferozpur City in India. The lifestyle of people seems same today. very well made video. Thanks and Congratulations to makers. Old memories rekindled.
Hary singh your nostalgic memories must have been stirred to the bottom.may your grandfather rest in peace amim
I visited Landikotal nearly 50 years ago by road. Then there was no rail link to Landikotal or Afghan border. Enjoyed your video, Thanks.
can't you make more of a comment on this video besides the fact that you visited and added no rail link? how about more info about the video content?
Railway has been there since 1920s
I and my husband, just after our wedding visited Landi Kotal, we were young and filled with a sense of adventure, we roamed around the bazaar and had the most delecious chapli kebobs, the people were so loving and friendly, I still remember that visit!
Wish I could be with you
@@yfhello me too
Where are u from?
that's because you are white, they love white people.
You visited Shaheen Shah Afridi's homeplace!
i grew up 10 kilometers from this place.
Lots of opium and hashish?
Which islamic Terrorist organisations have you joined ?
Wow really wonderful! I'm from Khyber the railway line is still here but no 🚆...trains 😥.
Pakistan has no money bro. I bet Afghanistan will do much better in 10 years than Pakistan.
Yeah apparently it was because of some incidents with the natural environment
need to open it again.
How long the whole Khyber Pass Road is?
If everybody love each other this world is a paradise.nature is beautiful.
This documentary may be old but it was very fascinating
What does its age matter when determining its fascination.
No this is not totally truth
The ancient Sanskrit name of Hindu Kush mountains was "Uparisyena". It means - beyond the reach of Eagles.
Nope ..
Stop mixing yourself with West Pakistan
@@SS-vl5zkRead history 😂
@@CoderBoy2004
Read reality
Stop watching RUNDIAN 🙋🏿♂️👌 media
You will see reality INSHALLAH 😊❤...
@@SS-vl5zk broaden your mind. World did exist before Islam.
Learn real history brother
I visited in 1990 in Torkham bought a Russian bayonet. Fascinating place. Greeting from Australia 🇦🇺
💕 love from landikotal Khyber pass
That's so awesome to see a steam engine still up and running, I gotta visit that place sooner than later
It’s no longer there
This was part our country india 🇮🇳 our land hindu kush.
Land of harrapa civilization.
Who said ??
Jo acha laga spma bana løs ..
Converted Indian ... This is KPK GILGIT BALOCHIStan.. these lands arent Indic people.. they are Iranic
And remove 🇮🇳 flag from khyber province Balochistan Gilgit Baltistan...
It wasn not a part of India
Yes it's a part of IVC, Indus valley civilization.
Thank you for uploading this video ❤️
Love and respect from India ❤
Showing the Historic Khyber pass in your video is an opportunity for every one to see the Historical place through which many expeditions took place from the west to the East , not only that Preachers also have brought their respective Religion and its Holy Text to the East through the KHYBER PASS . Thank you very much for your Histrical video .
If british didn't ring train these people would have never seen how train looks like...
Obviously British brought trains to entire Asia africa
Before Soviet invasion, these people had seen the world crossing this pass.
Just like india?
Great documentary portraying a slice of history. Thank you..
From Bangladesh and thank you very much for this presentation
Intruders came to India through this pass 😢
North india. South through sea.
I love old train videos 👍👍
Conflict scene is never far from khyber
If you want to see the STONE AGE here it is.....
Stone age is better than po*n age
We cant all be lyk san fernando valley types
@@DrStrange234 have you ever smoked sfv og kush? The funny thing is the genetics come from this exact area
Yes free of the porn, only fans, divorce, idol and satan worship
Admires to British, how they Disperarately fought... And many more..
Thank you, lovely mountains and people.
I would love to ride it one day.
TRULY MAGNIFICENT.
3 foot 8 & half inches, the most iconic measurement in the World !!!😆
This is the pass....where all Invedors come to our INDIA 🇮🇳
I red this in my school text...about
Khaibar Pass.....in १९७५ .
Regards
🙏🙏🙏
Which India ????
It was Afghanistan land
@@SS-vl5zkthere was no Afgan before abdali
It was part of perian empire
WOW! Amazing! Thank you for sharing
Love from kashmir ❤️
Proud to feel. Once upon time it is India. Jai Hind
*was
Just 75 years ago!
Who said ???
Stop feeling proud of KPK GILGIT BALOCHIStan history ..
These lands have nothing to do with India and Hinduism
Sorry Khyber pass was never a part of India
@aditya_sharma1 khyber pass was the part of Afghanistan and then tribal belt you surrounded to British and we were independent we pashton fought 15 wars against brits and you remained loyal to them stay away from us
Khyber Pass Railway
1) Built in = November, 1925
2) Line of Lenth = 58km (36 miles).
3) Track guage = 1876mm or ( 5ft & 6 inches).
Stations:
1) Peshawar city
2) Peshawar cantonment
3) Jamrud
4) Bagiarai
5) Medanak (1st Reversing station)
6) Chagai. ( 2nd reversing station)
7) Shahgai.
8) Kata Kushta
9) Zintara
10) Sultan Khel
11) Landi Kotal
12) Torra Tigga ( 3rd Reversing station)
13) Landi Khana ( 4th reversing station)
Victor Bailey was the engineer who supervise the constraction of Railway line.
There are 32 Tunnels and 92 Bridges & Culverts in 58km railway Track
Track passes through mountains terrain, reaching height of 1200m (3,900ft).
On 3rd April, 1926, the railway track was extended to Landi Khana, just 3km from the Torkham Border crossing with Afghanistan.
In 1932, the Landi Kotal to Khana section was Closed as the insistence of Afghan government
Regularly Scheduled Rail services continued between Peshawar and Landi Kotal until they ended in 1982, due to lack of commercial value.
In 2008, mansoon rains in the Khaber Pass washed away significant Section of the Railway lineand the track was closed to all rail traffic.
In 2010, Pakistan Railway began a FESIBILTY STUDY, to rebuild the khaber pass railway track and to possibly extend it further to jalabad. Afghanistan.However, work is slow due to security reason.
In 1916, the Afghan Ministery of Public Works began a survey of the Railway track from Pakistan boarder to Jalalabad.
Afghanistan has put also proposal and requests to further extended the railway to Kabul City.
The Afghanistan Chamber of commerce & Industries (ACCI), said that the new Railway line would facilitate trade with Pakistan.
Great Video, as others have said here I wonder if this train is still running today. If you could even visit and take this same journey today. This was before 911 so things have surely changed. But still cool to see
Don't think the tourist train runs anymore and it's out of bounds now for foreigners, but they do have regular train service to Peshawar nowadays. Just search for 'Peshawar train', there are a few videos available....
it dose not run any more.. but people including foreigners can drive all the way to the border crossings i recorded it on my channel
Very nice.. Thanks .Fantastic coverage,
Love this❤️. A history with train.
I , Ayaz Faheem Khan regional manager SHELL ,NWFP ,arranged train safari for MD ,SHELL INTERNATIONAL ,MR Mark Moody Stiward in 1993.
Carrying gun in America too is a birthright!
brothers in arms
nice people and culture
To anyone watching, this original route was retired in 2006. I am not sure what happened to the vintage steam train.
Discontinued
Wow what an incredible akhand bharat was before partition.
This land was not a part of “Akhand Bharat”
Amazing. 20+ years ago Tourists from western countries visit Pakistan and bring along their family. How times changed
He can give his life for his friend but if someone betrays him he will never forgive him...even his grandson wont forgive..
Respect. Some primitive good vibes are alive till now... unfake friendship ❤ unfake revenge for backstabbers🖤 .
This makes me wish that i was a pashtoon🇦🇫 🇵🇰.
Love& respect from ur enemy 😃🤝🇮🇳
Love
Yes and they can ride on airplane wheel also 😃😃
well then, you are, at heart, a pushtoon...
Pashtoon are not enemies of India
@@ashutoshyadav7385Pashtun conquered India
In the Past and bought many progressions and true justice under form of Islam to India.
Before the Mughals. Pashtun ruled what is now Most of Northen India up to Bangladesh. The Rupee system and Grand Trunk as well as Postal system were introduced by Sher khan Suri - Pashtun King of India
Sadly today it was taken over by the Mughal because the legendary king Sher khan Suri of Bihar passed away
@6:15 How come these guys are playing Yankee doddle dandy I'm wondering ! can any one explain pl ?
@@sexdrugsandrocknroll5943 Did you mean ubiquitous to be played on Bag pipe though?
Its a Train from hell to hell, video is about how to get killed on a steam train
Fabulous video 🤘🏼
Bu Tren filmi ne zaman çekildi bilmiyorum ? İnsan hayatı bu kadar ucuz mu ? Hareket halinde inenler, binenler var. Tren dışında olanlar var. Kardeş PAKİSTAN - İzmir/TÜRKİYE’den selamlar.
ye kab ka video hai ? bahut achha banaya hain
Where's the the 3rd Foot and Mouth?
Enjoyed ur video. I red in History books about Hindu Kush thru this passage several invaders invaded on India.
एक जानवर भी इससे अच्छी जिंदगी जीता है
Remarkable railway. I wonder if it still runs, and who ran it, if it no longer runs ? I would love to learn the history of this railroad in depth
Please don't go Alone over there ,,, Railway is Made by British Rulers in some how 1900 ,,
A start; Khyber Pass Railway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_Railway and Khyber train safari en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_train_safari
@@JanKhan-fx3ei Thank you. I would not go there alone, not now, but perhaps one day in the future, all people could show their homage to this delightful piece of history
@@AzeemKhan-qh9yw Thank you very kindly and very much
@@jimreily7538 Please do visit Pakistan. You will find an array of landscapes and people whose hospitality is second to non.
I doubt "Hindu Kush" means Hindu killer, . Google translates Killer to Pashto as قاتل "Katil"
Which is nowhere near the word "Kush"
Please Donot make your own translation
It's in Farsi. Kush means killer. kushi is killing. Katl is Arabic.
Hindukush does mean Hindu killer. Back in the days when Afghani and Kazak rulers after plundering India used to take a lot of slaves from India (Mostly Hindus) who couldn't survive the journey back to Samarkand or Bukhara and thus the mountains came to be knows as the Hindu killer mountain or Hindu Kush. It's ironical though because the Hindu Shahis did not get expelled from Afghanistan till 11th ~ 12th centuries. When it refers to Hindus it's mainly talking about current day people of Punjab.
Google translates Killer as
قاتل
In Persian
Still it is not "Kush"
I can read, write Arabic, Urdu , Farsi letters.. I may not know all the meaning. But Google is there to help. Sorry "Kush" did NOT translate to "Killer" in Persian
@@FerdausAlAmin
Qatal is the Arabic word for murder or killing. Qatil is the murderer. Kushi is murder in Farsi. Kush is the word for murderer.
@@hawkingdawking4572 I looked up in Farsi/Persian. There also Google Translater gives "Katil" as "killer"; not "Kush". Only conclusion, Google may be " incorrect "!
Must of been a massive effort to put that railway thru in those days
Sir good video
PAKISTAN IS HOME TO INDUS VALLEY AND GANDHARA IN NORTHERN V...
GANDARA includes regipon from kyber pass till jhelum river in eastren parts ...
Fantastic 😊
Carry on up the Khyber!
Pathan best friend and worst enemy 💥
Yes Gorkha Chop Them like a Carrot .
All belongs to Bharat...one day inshallah will return to the glorious days of Hind.
Gov mutra zyada pee liye kya aaj
Ameen
@@junaidsofi760 including you.
lol 1000 years slaves dont get to decide when to be free.
@@sonoftheindus3921 we decided to be free from the ZOMBIES IN after the tyrant aurangzeboobs
These territories belong to noone but India.
All territories belonged to Mughal empire and durrani empires in past
Only later some betrayed them to british
I was searching for this comment. ❤️🧡🇮🇳🕉
Read” Caravans “ by Michner
Pakistan 🇵🇰 beautiful
💩
I remember changing currency in Peshawer. We met one of the local warlords. It was terrifying. This video is good, but doesn't do the Hindu Kush justice. Perhaps that's not possible.
Nice journey
The land of hashish opium and guns, pure heaven for me.
There's no rule there. One of the tribesmen from here founded the entire concept of Heroin trade
He lives freely here but passed away few years ago. Here no government rules. Truly a land of the free
This is the edge of Indian civilization.
Nope 😂😂😂
Andhbakht 🥴
This is KPK GILGIT BALOCHIStan...
They are edge of great Iran 🇮🇷
Beautiful story
Hindu Kush is NOT Hindu killer. Don't use unchecked Wikipedia statements without a fact check. The name preceded even the origin of the Muslim religion. Why would it be called Hindu killer? Use some sense. It has a fee theories like the Persian derivation of the name Indicus, Kush meaning a mountain, so a mountain of the Hindus, and so on and for with the timelines of before the Muslim religionspread in that area. Not to dislike any religion, but don't fall for loose talk. Use historical data.
This documentary was made in 2000, before wikipedia
"Kush" means "to kill" in Persian.
@@FishbedMyBeloved even without Wikipedia, countless historians and people educated in the right discipline were available for fact check I am sure. In fact, Wikipedia is free for all, and may not always be accurate.
@@FishbedMyBeloved so ! are they free to say anything?
If you don't know something, stop talking about.
Kush is an Persian word means killer.
Very Nice ❤️🇵🇰❤️
💩
All which was part of India😞
Part of British india or british raj 🇬🇧
I was searching for this comment. ❤️🧡🇮🇳🕉
@@Sumit_Nair
Kashmir is Pakistan 😊
I am from there ....
You are a Converted Hindu 😂
This was never Pindian dir..Ty land
The British garrison agreed a peace treaty and were attacked and massacred including women and children while retreating down the Kyber pass, they later returned and levelled Kabul. Hardly a big defeat.
Very descriptive.
hindu kush means hindu mountains..the range connects to the himalayas
Hindu Kush means exactly what the narrator said in this video. It can further be explained as a killer mountain for ones coming from India to Afghanistan. It probably means ruggedness of the terrain and ferocity of Pashtuns of this area.
@@AnnManMS lol... Ur ancestors were hindus upto 10 century.
@@Raghu291
And your ancestors were Pagans before 1 ad ...
And Pathans , GILGIT , Balochis were never Hindus or Indians
Who the heel he is Explaining the history is he Historian ???
looks fun
Nice❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤😂😂❤❤❤❤❤😂😂❤
my Sweet Country 🇵🇰 .
💩
It's Indian paas
How ???
This is KPK GILGIT BALOCHIStan...
These lands are not Indic ..
Converted Hindu 😊
@@SS-vl5zk You'll realise very soon whose this land belongs to and Hindus are Born not converted but you won't understand it bcz you know that flat earth theory 😂
@@hinduismmanifesto4460
I know my history more than you..
*converted Hindu ..your ancestors were Pagans
Good one...
I am proud for pathan
Wonder if they use that train still
Rail operations stopped in 2006 after monsoon rains washed away some track sections.
Bro i wstched this video along time ago.. Idgaf anymore
@@raybaca7387 ???
I mean you tell your bro that ydgaf anymore?
Historic place and unique railway track but unfortunately pakistan due to its inaptness is losing these miraculous legacies.
Instead talking about the beauty I find u r talking all negative things ....
Im from hayatabad peshawar very close to khyberpass 😍🇵🇰
Hi, are u a pakistanese nationalist ?
@@louisfesselet3963 as a matter of fact i am 🌚
@@pakistaninationalist8655 in an year you ll be chinese nationalist🥰
@@arnavsadhu first of all let me make this clear to you we are just allies with china not brothers so dont say that we will become chinese nationalists i am a proud pashtoon and will sacrifise my life for the country 🇵🇰🇵🇰👊
@@arnavsadhu 😂😂😂😂
Between Peshawar and Landikotal there is an ancient fortress at Dakka. Do the same still exist? What about the Caravanserais of Landikotal?
"Yankee doodle" played on the bagpipes?
0:32-0:37 🤩
One year before 9/11.
It looks good only on screen.
Everyone feeling so good about this place can't survive a week there thanks to local !slamic militancy and barren land.
you died there?
This is not Pakistan this is part of Afghanistan stop spreading propaganda video shame on you
teri kyu jali bsky?
Same 🙏
Uzbekistan Kyrghyztan Tajikistan Turkmenistan also needed your lands 😊
We are completing lhb coaches and they are still on old diesel engines 😳
This was shot in 1998
Totally angryz k gulam thy ab gaddaron k gulam hein Jo apny hi hein ab imran k sath hoy
After more thn 2decade I'm sure that's there absolutely same like here, nothing change or devlopment in this Bekaristan. 🇵🇰😂🤩 God save Bekaristan and it people's 🇵🇰..
Afridis please reply to this comment ❤❤❤
All the historic manlihood drizled down into a mere puppet show
Oooh!
Ab hukmat as railway link ko dobara peshawr to torkhum tak behal karay