<P> On November 12, 1893 the Agreement Between Great Britain and Afghanistan was signed in Kabul . The Agreement reconfirmed the 1873 Agreement, required Afghanistan to withdraw from the territory north of the Amu Darya that it had occupied in 1884, and called for delimitation of the boundary east of Lake Sari . </P> <P> When Mortimer Durand, Secretary for State of India was appointed administrator of the Gilgit Agency (now part of the Gilgit - Baltistan of Pakistan), he opened up the region by building roads, telegraph, and mail systems while maintaining a dialogue with the Mir of Gilgit . He intended to improve the road from Kashmir through the princely states of Hunza and Nagar and up to the frontier with Russia . The Mirs of Nagar and Hunza saw this as a threat to their natural advantage of remoteness . In 1890, Durand reinforced Chalt Fort that was near the border due to the rumor that Nagar and Hunza fighters were about to attack it, and continued redeveloping the road up to the fort . In May 1891, Nagar and Hunza sent a warning to Durand not to continue work on the road to the fort and to vacate the fort, which was on the Gilgit side of the border, else they would regard it as an act of war . Durand reinforced the fort and accelerated the road construction to it, causing Nagar and Hunza to see this as an escalation and so they stopped mail from the British Resident in Chinese Turkmenistan through their territory . British India regarded this as a breach of their 1889 agreement with Hunza, and after an ultimatum was issued and ignored they initiated the Anglo - Brusho Campaign of 1891 . Hunza and Nagar came under a British protectorate in 1893 . </P> <P> On March 11, 1895 there was an Exchange of Notes Between Great Britain and Russia . The notes defined British and Russian spheres of influence east of Lake Sari - Qul by defining the northern boundary of the Wakhan Corridor east of the lake . This boundary was subsequently demarcated by a mixed commission . The Great Game is proposed to have ended on 10 September 1895 with the signing of the Pamir Boundary Commission protocols, when the border between Afghanistan and the Russian empire was defined . The Pamir Boundary Commission was conducted by Major - General Gerard who met with a Russian deputation under General Povalo - Shveikovsky in the remote Pamir region in 1895, who were charged with demarcating the boundary between Russian and British spheres of interest from Lake Victoria eastwards to the Chinese border . The report of the Commission proved the absolute impracticality of any Russian invasion of India through the Pamir mountains . The result was that Afghanistan became a buffer state between the two powers . </P> <P> It was agreed that the Amu Darya river would form the border between Afghanistan and the Russian empire . Russia gained full possession of all of the Pamir Mountains, except for Taghdumbash, which would be the subject of a later Afghan - China agreement . To conclude their agreement, one peak was named Mount Concord . In exchange for a British agreement to use the term Nicholas Range in honor of the Emperor Nicholas II of Russia on official maps, the Russians agreed to refer to Lake Zorkul as Lake Victoria in honor of Queen Victoria of England . </P>

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