Gen Raheel to visit Kabul tomorrow

[WAJsal]

this will be interesting,might as well bring interesting results

 

[Havi Sultan]

Little history

In the 60's Afghanistan armed forces attacked Bajaur,FATA prior to which Pakistan had a neutral policy toward Afghanistan and had even put Afghanistan into the list of possible confederation between Pakistan-iran-Afghanistan.

This forced Pakistan into Blocking the Afghan trade route to warm water through pakistan which had created alot of problems in Afghanistan.

For alternative route,Afghanistan got closer to USSR followed by less than 2 decades later USSR invasion of Afghanistan resulting in talibs creation by pakistan,usa and ksa and the take over by talibs in the 90's once again followed by nato invasion of Afghanistan and the present situation

So it all started with the invasion of Bajaur in the 60's.

I just hope that both sides will corperate and show mutual interest in defeating Talibs

For the Pakistani side:

As it is believed,that india presence in Afghanistan is bad for Pakistan.it is a wrong belief and if we have enough funds to fence the border,no matter how much presence india have in afghanistan won't matter.

I believe the real divergence between Pakistani Pashtun and Afghan national came during the time of Abdur Rehman Khan. He sold the lar Pashtuns to the British just to save the northern areas, including Kabul and Kandahar. Otherwise the nation was one under the Durranis.

After the land was divided the Pakistani Pashtun succeeded much more than the Afghan national and was culturally and economically stronger. Hence the Afghans do not accept the Durand line even though they themselves signed the deal and want land that fairly and squarely went to Pakistan. Abdur Rehman Khan sold the south just so he could save the north.

The maltreatment Pashtuns from our side suffered when they went to seek Afghan help began there.

1983 was like the partition but one of Afghanistan, not India. From then on Pakistani Pashtuns and Afghan Pashtuns began having divergent thoughts. The Pashtuns in Indian occupied Pakhtunkhwa vouched for Pakistan while the Afghan ones kept expecting the Pakistani pashtuns to come to them.

India's role has been negative throughout all of this. They are trying to break Pakistan but this time from the east with the support of Afghanistan.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Dohti walas were the reason why Afghanistan descended into a civil war after 1991. Pakistan arranged 3 rounds of dialogue between Mehsud, Dostam, Hizb-e-Islami, Haqqanis and Sayyaf. All of them were sabotaged by a specific hubristic nation which lead to the commanders going to war again.

Nawaz Sherif took these warmongers to Mekka and made them take oath that they will be good to each other but they came back and resumed their infighting

 

[CENTCOM]

The importance of shared cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains high since the terrorists on both sides of the border continue to infiltrate the region with their acts of terror. The common challenges have often ignited allegations from both ends, but at the end of the day Afghanistan and Pakistan must form a healthy working relationship in order to counter the common threat of terrorism. I think it is easy to see that both nations are making strong efforts to iron out any differences and work together for the betterment of the region. We certainly wish to see the regional partners communicating and coordinating effectively for the sake of achieving our shared peace objectives in the region.

Ali Khan
Digital Engagement Team, USCENTCOM

 

[Samandri]

I believe the real divergence between Pakistani Pashtun and Afghan national came during the time of Abdur Rehman Khan. He sold the lar Pashtuns to the British just to save the northern areas, including Kabul and Kandahar. Otherwise the nation was one under the Durranis.

After the land was divided the Pakistani Pashtun succeeded much more than the Afghan national and was culturally and economically stronger. Hence the Afghans do not accept the Durand line even though they themselves signed the deal and want land that fairly and squarely went to Pakistan. Abdur Rehman Khan sold the south just so he could save the north.

The maltreatment Pashtuns from our side suffered when they went to seek Afghan help began there.

1983 was like the partition but one of Afghanistan, not India. From then on Pakistani Pashtuns and Afghan Pashtuns began having divergent thoughts. The Pashtuns in Indian occupied Pakhtunkhwa vouched for Pakistan while the Afghan ones kept expecting the Pakistani pashtuns to come to them.

India's role has been negative throughout all of this. They are trying to break Pakistan but this time from the east with the support of Afghanistan.

What a idiotic version of history, who made you think-tank?. @farhan_9909 is right in the sense that interference and aggressiveness from Pakistani side started only after Afghanistan's mis-adventure of bajaur 1960. Surely Afghanistan-pakistan tension started in 1947 but upto 1961, pakistan was defensive and was into reconciliation with neighbor.

Your garbage history, doesnt make any sense. The FATA and former PATA tribes were practically independent from rule of either kabul or Delhi, infact Sadozai-Durrani rulers had to pay annual allowances to Afridi tribes for the passage in khyber pass, no taxation on them. The Durrani rule on plain areas , of Peshawer, KOhat, Bannu etc ended much earlier in period of 1819-1834, they lost the territories to Sikhs. From that period onward, KPK has no history associated with Afghanistan. Its absurd to conclude that Amir abdul Rehman sold KPK to British in 1893, the region was already conquered much earlier by Sikhs. Amir Abdul Rehman himself acquired the throne with the military assistance of British in 1880. In 1885 his domains were saved from Russian invasion by British interference. Why it surprises you that such emir would sign the treat to give up on territories which were already lost 70 years ago in 1819-34. British were in position of conquering entire Afghanistan if they had thrown their full military might against Afghans but that was not in their interest.