On Jul 16, 10:22=A0am, Muhamad Javed Iqbal <kaleemjavediq...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> Why are they calling indians to rebuild their nation?
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> http://ia.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/16guest.htm
Afghanistan has historic grievances that persist to this day:
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/jan03/southAsia.asp
Pashtun discontent goes back to the 19th century when the British
created a buffer between the Czars and the British Empire in the great
power game.
The "Durand line" established in 1893 has been challenged by
"successive Afghans as if it were a 'line drawn on water'". [4] It
became a sensitive issue when the British departed the Subcontinent.
The Pashtuns on the Pakistani side resided in the two western provinces
=97the NWFP and Baluchistan, a province that also neighbors Iran. Kabul
refused to recognize the newly independent Pakistan and immediately
challenged the legitimacy of Pakistan's borders. Afghanistan cast the
sole vote at the United Nations against Pakistan's member****p, laid
territorial claim to the two provinces of Baluchistan and NWFP and
expressed the hope that "natural and legal rights of freedom of the
North West Frontier people and free tribes along the borders may also
be established".[5]
The Pashtun nationalistic fervor=97known as the " Pashtunistan
movement"=97
engendered tense relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was an
irredentist movement originally begun in Afghanistan, which resonated
on the Pakistani side and was mainly organized by the Khudai
Khidmatgars or 'Red ****rts.'[6]
