The Greeks called the western part this region Parapamisos, which may be derived from the old old Persian name of the Hindu Kush mountain range, Upairisaena (mentioned in the Avesta, Yasna 10).
Nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks, his last remaining safe havens in the Hindu Kush are under attack, and U.S. soldiers patrol the streets of Kandahar and Baghdad.
At 12:53 am the same day, a 6.2-magnitude hit the Hindu Kush Region of Afghanistan, though no deaths or damages have so far been reported from the quake.
当天12时53分,阿富汗兴都库什地区发生6.2级地震,目前尚无人员伤亡报告。
The boundaries of the 15 regions, except the Hindu Kush region, closely relate to segmentation of subducting slab.
在这15个地区中,除兴都库什地区外,其余地区的边界与俯沖带的分段性有密切关系。
The Wuqia earthquake occurred only 25 days after the Hindu Kush earthquake.
乌恰地震发生在兴都库什地震之后仅仅25天。
A river, about 1,287 km (800 mi) long, rising in the Hindu Kush and flowing southwest across Afghanistan to a marshy lake on the Iranian border.
The Pakistani seismological bureau says the quake hit at around 6:00am local time, 200 kilometers north of Peshawar in the mountainous Hindu Kush region straddling the Afghan-Pakistani border.