HC Deb 21 December 1893 vol 20 cc83-4
MR. S. SMITH

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether, in respect of the engagements recently entered into with His Highness the Ameer of Afghanistan, the territory which has come under British control considerably exceeds in extent that which is given over to Afghanistan; and can Papers with maps be laid before Parliament at an early date describing those territories respectively, also explaining the nature and method of control proposed to be exercised over the territory thus newly brought under the Indian Government?

* MR. GEORGE RUSSELL

The Secretary of State, as I mentioned last week (in reply to the hon. Member for Central Hackney), is as yet in possession only of telegraphic summaries of the points of agreement arrived at, and is not in a position consequently to give an answer to these questions.

* MR. GIBSON BOWLES

Does the agreement arrived at include the question of the Afghan frontier on the Pamirs?

MR. GEORGE RUSSELL

I would rather not answer any question until I have received full particulars.