This is a part of unexplored Kafiristan rather than Badakshan, and he will be a bold man indeed who undertakes its investigation.

The northern frontier is split by the narrow Minjan valley of Badakshan, which seems to rise in the very heart of Kafiristan.

The wild and savage altitudes of Badakshan and Kafiristan by no means exhaust the unexplored 512 tracts of Afghanistan.

Kafiristan is, however, in these modern days very much curtailed as the home of the Kafir.