Kafiristan

He was a soldier again a decade later in John Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King,” based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, playing a military officer who’s embraced as a god in Kafiristan, an impression he struggles to maintain.

Trying their luck in the fictional and worryingly named land of Kafiristan, they look to become staggeringly wealthy when the credulous natives mistake them for gods.

Rudyard Kipling sends two British scoundrels to Kafiristan, which they loot.

They are the last survivors of the people of Kafiristan, who were mostly converted to Islam in the nineteenth century.

Chitral. from the Hindu Kush, is the lofty snow-clad spur of the Hindu Kush known as Shawal, across which one or two difficult passes lead into the Bashgol valley of Kafiristan.