![]() ![]() ![]() Ney Elias had already pointed the situation out in a memorandum dated 1882, probably after reading Kostenko’s report. Indeed Colonel Kostenko had shown in his map and his report that the Pamir was a no-man’s-land and hence ripe for the taking. The activities of the Regel and Kostenko missions in the western and eastern Pamir were significant, as were Przhevalskiy’s explorations towards Tibet. Although a Liberal he was distinctly more concerned with foreign policy as it affected the defence of India than his predecessor he realized that India’s northern frontier from Afghanistan eastwards was in a deplorable state of flux of which there were distinct signs that Russia was going to try to take further advantage. In 1884 when the Afghan Boundary Commission was already in the field, Lord Dufferin decided to send out two more missions. ![]()
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