HL Deb 21 June 1886 vol 307 c3

In reply to Lord ELLENBOROUGH,

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (The Earl of KIMBERLEY) said

Colonel Lockhart, after visiting Gilgit and Chitral, on a journey of exploration, has passed into Lower Badakshan on his return to India by the country of the Hindoo Khush. There is no truth in a recent report that Colonel Lockhart and his party have been seized and imprisoned in Badakshan.