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2008-03-27 India-Pakistan

Pakistain's brutal beneficiaries betray their refuge

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 in the name of expanding Afghanistan to include the major cities of Quetta and Peshawar

Greater Afghanistan? I don't recall calls for this before, is it new?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-27 03:00|| 2008-03-27 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Could it be that ISI is out of anyone's control, and is only working to implement Islamism in Pakistan (for starters).

Posted by gromky 2008-03-27 06:02|| 2008-03-27 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 He, he. One of the keys of Pakistan's support to Taliban is that the Pakis thought that ultraislamists would not question the Durand line (the Durand treaty expired somewhere in the 90s): "We are all muslims. Who cares about a little border between friends?". I am happy this comes now to bite the Pakis.

Also if Taliban start turning to nationalism they
will a) turn against Mullah Omar who allowed Al Quaida (furriners) rule the country b) turn against Al Quaida (Arabs, furriners) c) they become Afghanistan's problem not ours.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-03-27 09:46|| 2008-03-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Afghanistan voted against the entry of Pakistan into the United Nations in 1947 because it did not accept the legality of the NWFP's incorporation into Pakistan.

The Government of the NWFP, led by an arm of India's Congress Party was dismissed by Sir George Cunningham, governor of the NWFP. Afghanistan argued that the NWFP should have been given the option to join Pakistan or become independent. The option to join India was forbidden by Lord Louis Mountbatten (the last Viceroy of the Indian Empire) because of the lack of territorial contiguity. The NWFP leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a follower of the Mahatma and sometimes called the Frontier Gandhi for his leadership of the Pashtuns in non-violent resistance during the struggle against the British was jailed.

The 100 year Durand Line treaty between the British Raj and the Emirate of expired in 1993. Afghans consider the Pashtuns regions annexed by the British into their Indian Empire as legally Afghan territory. With the expiration of the treaty, they want it back.

Posted by john frum 2008-03-27 13:49|| 2008-03-27 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 BTW, the ANP party that came to power recently is led by a grandson of Abdul Gaffar Khan (guy on the left)

Posted by john frum 2008-03-27 13:52|| 2008-03-27 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 neat pic John... Thanks! >:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-03-27 21:34|| 2008-03-27 21:34|| Front Page Top

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