With the Zhob Field Force: 1890 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Prior to the year 1889, the Gomal Pass and, indeed, the whole Zhob Valley were almost entirely unknown to the British Government. The information in our possession was practically wholly derived from native sources. The earliest officer to traverse the district seems to have been Lieutenant Broadfoot, who, in 18 39, joined a caravan of Pawindahs at Ghazni, and entered India by this road. The first serious attempt to open up the highway for British Indian traffic was made in 1878 by Major Macaulay, at that time deputy-commissioner of Dera Ismail Khan, but he only got about thirty miles up the pass, when his efforts at pacification were brought to a sudden close by the Mahsud raid on Tank, which led to the Mahsud Waziri expedition being undertaken in 1881. Then, in 188 3, a native surveyor, Yusaf Sharif by name, was despatched to explore the pass under tribal escort, and he did useful work by successfully surveying the route as far as the junction of the Zhob and Gomal streams. This survey, however, only extended to about twenty-four miles beyond our then frontier line.

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