English X - Chapter No.19 - Words/Meaning and Summary

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THE KHYBER PASS
Words/Meaning and Summary

Words / Meaning

S.No.	Words	Meanings
1.	Arms	Weapons
2.	Beyond	Across
3.	Bales	A large bundle
4.	Caravan	A long line of travellers
5.	Conquerors	A person who conquers a place or people, Winner
6.	Defended	Try to save oneself
7.	Delicious	Tasty
8.	Famous	Well known
9.	Frontier	A line or border separating two countries
10.	Mighty	Powerful
11.	Mule trains	Rows of mule
12.	Narrow	Not Wide
13.	Obtain	Achieve
14.	Post	Pole
15.	Route	Path way
16.	Spices	A pungent vegetable substance used to flavour food
17.	Stretched	Extend
18	Zigzag	Winding

Short note Or Summary on THE KHYBER PASS

The Khyber pass is a narrow mountain valley about fifty kilometres long. It has been famous in history for thousands of years. The Aryans crossed this Pass nearly four thousand years ago. After them came the Mongols and the Tartars, then Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi and other Muslim conquerors - Shahabuddin Ghauri, Babur and Ahmad Shah Abdali.

The Khyber Pass had been a famous trade route. About fourteen kilometres from Peshawar is the Jamrod check-post. It runs zigzag through the mountains. In these mountains live the brave tribesmen of the Frontier.  On the top of nearly every house was a tower with a long, narrow opening in its walls to be used for firing at the enemies. 

After covering about thirty kilometres, there is the highest place along the Pass called Landikotal.  From Landikotal, the road goes down winding through beautiful scenery. Parallel to the road, runs the railway line, passes through many tunnels in the mountains. This railway line was laid in 1925. Just below the road,  there is a track along which once travelled camel caravans and mule trains.  At a distance of  ten kilometer from Landikotal is Torkham the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where a chain stretched across the road and the Pakistan flag flying on a hill.