An 1891 book described the Kunar region as split between the lower river area, controlled by Afghan chiefs, and the upstream area, where the Kunar river was actually referred to as the Chitral river. The major town of Chitral (in modern Pakistan) was the base of a badshah, who ruled under the Maharajah of KashmirThe Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: South-western Asia – Page 47, Elisée Reclus, Ernst Georg Ravenstein, Augustus Henry Keane – 1891
