MortimerDurand was born in Sehore, Bhopal State of India on the 14th of February 1850 and died in Polden, Somerset, England on 8 June 1924.
Although Durand opposed dividing Persia into spheres of influence, he had sketched a line from Khanqin, then on the Ottoman-Persian border, through Hamadan, Isfahan, Yazd, and Kerman to Seistan, defining the northernmost limits of clear British ascendance, in order to bring into focus the region where British energies should be concentrated.
Durand's departure from Persia in April 1900 coincided with the granting of a Russian loan, accompanied by severe political restrictions, including continuation of a ban on railway building.
The Durand line is a term for the poorly marked 2,450 kilometer (1,519 mile) border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Named for Sir MortimerDurand, the foreign secretary of the British Indian government, it was agreed upon by representatives of both Afghanistan and the British Empire, but deeply resented by the Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan who may have viewed the border as a temporary arrangement rather than a permanent agreement.
Some Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan still want to dissolve the Durand Line, however the issue has lost its previous support due to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent chaos and the tenuous rebuilding that is taking place in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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