Show A City of Sieges Iferat is the fifty limes bsi ied city If the sieges are accurately counted iho result Js fiftytwo Itwan the capital of Timurlt was fought tot by the Mohammedans by the Persians bv time Ameera of Kabul and there has always been an Ameer at Herat anxloUB to regain his patrimony The years when Herat has not seen fighting have been rare and Herat Is a very old town During the present century It haft been unsuccessfully besieged In 1W and 1S3S by the Persians and taken by them In 1S56 regained by Dost Mohammed Ameer of Kabul In 1SG3 lost by him to au Ameer ot Herat and regained by Kabul In 1881 under the present Ameer Abdurrahman Khan And why Is Herat the hey to India In-dia when It Is I situated in the extreme northwest of Afghanistan nearly 600 miles as the crow files from the In dlnn frontier Because Herat Is U controlling point of the approaches 1 the only two posses Into India that flI traversed by 1 railroads I One highway that goes eustw from Herat kefups south of the HI I Ktiflh and reaches Kabul whence Ill a short routs through Kftbul pa Peshawar Tier < r fit Peahduar C ° mcncos one of the Important m nf Infill a srrat trunk line as J t n ctn v t Lfhoro fi all pointslm Indian rerIrmiula i |