As the gateway to the fabled land of Hind,
Afghanistan is one of the bloodiest places in history. Along the trail from
Herat to the Khyber Pass lie the bones of a myriad adventurers, missionaries,
traders, would-be conquerors and the people who lived there. The list includes
Persians, Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Huns, Uzbeks, Chin and a hundred other groups
searching for the Land of Five Rivers. The one constant is that few thought of
founding a kingdom or dynasty in Afghanistan. Maybe they knew