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Hey William.
Always a pleasure reading your articles, definitely a breath of fresh air. I read your article and partially agree. However, in order to re authenticate the Afghanistan (aka Pashtun areas), this will lead a variety of issues:
1) Pakistan will not give away the western Pashtun(Afghan) part as easily, since they have considered its backyard for strategic depth against India. Also, the Pashtun areas in Pakistan like Baloch are the resource rich ones, and are strategically more important. By them conceding their territory to Kabul (which eventually they will do) will make them insignificant and hasten their already rising paranoia against India.
2) Also, Pakistan is just as artificial of a state, if not more. I mean Afghanistan was kept together (including the pashtun/afghan belt in Pakistan) through pashtun kings. However, when the British and Russians fought over the region, it created many artificial borders and disturbed the balance of central asia. In a twist of irony, isn't it these sort of struggles (like the cold war before) that give Pakistan any legitimacy, it was after all demarcated by the british in a bid to have a pro-western ally during the cold war.
3) What would be done to the heavy pashtun population in the north, which right now is going through problems due to the nato led war? There are many cities in the north that have substantial pashtun populations and during pashtun led government (for the past 250 years) have managedto wrestle those territories from the others.
I definitely agree with you on taliban, this is a movement that came out of the disastrous 80s and 90s, where both US and then Pakistani ISI funded this movement for their political reasons. I, as a Pashtun(Afghan), am very sure that with the unification of the pashtuns(afghans) as well as the dismantling of pakistani intel and NATO in the region will stifle the taliban movement. If anything it will have to resort to a Pashtun-centric regime, where it is a conservative society, but not extreme or foolish like the taliban, who have helped destroy the Afghan identity. Eventually such a movement will die out since its major backer (ISI) will lose significant control. I hope to hear from you soon, and keep up your great work.
Ali
Ali Aziz
Thanks Ali. WM
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