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Panjdeh
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Pandeh, or Penjdeh is a village of Russian Turkestan that was rendered famous by the Panjdeh Incident of 1885. It is situated on the east side of the Kushk river near the river's junction with the Murghab at Pul-i-Khishti. In March, 1885 when the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission should have been engaged in settling the boundary-line, a portion of it was in a dispute between the Afghans and the Russians. A part of the Afghan force was encamped on the west bank of the Kushk, and on the 29th of March General Komarov sent an ultimatum demanding their withdrawal. On their refusal the Russians attacked the Afghans at 3 a.m. on the 30th of March and drove them across the Pul-i-Khishti Bridge with a loss of some 600 men to the Russians. The incident nearly gave rise to war between Britain and Russia; but the emir Abdur-Rahman, who was present at the Rawalpindi conference with Lord Dufferin at the time, regarded the matter as a mere frontier scuffle. The border-line subsequently determined gave Russia the corner between the Kushk and Murghab rivers as far as Maruchak on the Murghab, and the Kushk post has now become the frontier post of the Russian army of occupation.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Sir T. Hungerford Holdich, The Indian Borderland, London for a detailed report on Panjdeh incident.