Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush commonly understood to mean Hindu killers or killer of the Hindus in Persian; is an 800 kilometre long (500 miles) mountain range that expands through Afghanistan, from its centre to north of Pakistan and toward Tajikistan.It creates the western area of the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region and is the westernmost expansion of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram-range and the Himalayas.