Hindu Kush is a geographic feature.
The Hindu Kush ( [ kʊʃ , _ kuːʃ ] Pashto , Persian and [ ) , also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus or Paropamisadae , is an 800 km mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border , from central Afghanistan to northern Pakistan . It forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region ( HKH ) . It divides the valley of the Amu Darya ( the ancient Oxus ) to the north from the Indus River valley to the south . The Hindu Kush range has numerous high snow-capped peaks , with the highest point in the Hindu Kush being Tirich Mir or Terichmir at 7708 m in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan . The Hindu Kush range has also been the passageway during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent , and continues to be important during modern era warfare in Afghanistan .