While much of the world watches the standoff between the U.S.A, Israel, and Iran in the Middle East, there is another war in the making in the near neighbourhood. Cross-border attacks, militant infiltrations, and counterstrikes are increasingly common along the Durand Line. Yet the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict receives little international attention. The Durand line (Colonial Border), drawn in 1893 by Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan and Sir Mortimer Durand, has long been shaped by imperial rivalry.