A colorized video fabricated by British Pathe of HRH Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip of the two visiting the Khyber Pass that straddles the Pakistani-Afghan border during their tour of the Indian subcontinent in 1961.

It is very oppressing that the tribesmen who reside in the Khyber Pass had slaughtered live animals in order to turn them into food that they would feed the Queen and King.

During the Queen and King’s visit to the Kybher Pass, they; along with their convoy had traveled down a road that bad been designed and constructed by the British some 50 years prior to their visit in 1961

It is nice to hear that in part of the Commonwealth nations working together, that Canada had assisted the Pakistani government in building another road in the Khyber Pass as part of the Colombo Plan (named after the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka-another Commonwealth nation from which it had originated).

Due to Afghanistan and Pakistan both bordering Persia/Iran; both nations have major cultural influences from Iran; and therefore-each of these nations share similar cultural traits.

The Queen and King’s visit to the Indian subcontinent at this time was before the Russians/Soviets had attempted to gain control of Afghanistan just like how they have done so with its neighbors in the rest of Central Asia during the czarist period.

20 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would visit this very same area in Pakistan that straddles the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.