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- 65 - Afghans had not been solved. As a result the reaction had been the question of Pushtunistan come into being, so that till that region of the Pushtuns is not made indpendent, there could not be a Permanent peace in that phart of Asia. As a result of the records of history which had been rev- ealed; and some of which have also been appearing in the publi- cations both in our own and those of the English. When the English occupied the Indus Valley in the year 1843. A. D. and placed the Punjab unddr their rule, had aways in the quest of making a boundry line their territory and those of the western neighbours. In other words, the imperialist designs of the English during their progress for half a century had enabled them to overpower the fertile regions of India from the Ganges to the basin of the Indus river. When that was accomplished they were solicitous to find a lind of demarkation of a permanet value; so that the tasty morsal of India should be eaten away from the interference of rivals; so that no one should meddle in their rule of the fetile plains and extensive regions of which then they were the masters. It was this that impelled the military and political officers of rhe Britsh empire to arrive at a decision in regards to a line of frontier. As the readers are aware that the discovery and the evolution of a line of demarkation was a problem of great intricacy; the cnnsiderations which promted the several steps of the British in this regard had perforce due to the ever changing conditons of time and circumstances, had to be altered and changed frequently. The principles that guided the British in relation to this making of a fronier line of strength and permanancy, were two fangled. One school was the school of Forward Policy and the other was the Limited Frontier of Close Frontier Policy. Those British officers who had served in Sindh were favourable to a