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2005-02-11 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-02-11 8:48:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Funny. In Islamrealm one has to bomb indiscriminately right and left to gain credibility.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-11 10:39:38 AM|| 2005-02-11 10:39:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is there a province in Pakistan that doesn't have a secession movement?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-11 11:51:36 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-11 11:51:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 SLA? Nope sorry guys, that one was trademarked back in the 1970's.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-11 12:34:10 PM|| 2005-02-11 12:34:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Is there a province in Pakistan that doesn't have a secession movement?

The frontier provinces, I think, but mainly because the central government gave up on them years ago.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-11 1:11:51 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-11 1:11:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The central gov't never really controlled the frontier provinces, from what I understand. The tribal territories straddle the Afghan/Pakistan border. Back in the day, the British Empiracles negotiated that the tribals would allow central gov't to administer national stuff -- like registering births and marriages, handling international diplomacy and wars -- that the tribes didn't care about anyway, while the tribal council continued to run all the local stuff. That's why the tribal jirgas (drums and all) are the ones to hunt out foreign terrorists, and not Pakistani Regular Army troops.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-11 8:17:37 PM|| 2005-02-11 8:17:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 During the seventies there was a popular Pashtun secessionist movement which was leftist in ideology. It has since been made almost defunct by the rise of the Taliban and pan-Islamism amongst the Pashtuns.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-02-11 11:20:43 PM|| 2005-02-11 11:20:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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