IS PAKISTAN MISSING OUT ON A VITAL & RARE OPPORTUNITY IN AFGHANISTAN?
As you know, since the Taliban has come to power there has been a lot of international debate about their morality and treatment of women and ethnic minorities which the media has been focusing on.
Within Afghanistan itself, as present by the talks of the diaspora, there is a lot of ethnic strife and their unity is eroded.
Many Tajiks and Hazaras are campaigning for their rights, with many
protests and
viral hashtags - and many have given up on the idea of Afghanistan as a viable country!
Pakistan should leverage this political instability and the weight of western media propaganda to it's advantage by a covert online propaganda campaign to break the morale of the Afghan people and their belief in their nation as a whole.
Using talking points of Afghanistan:
-Being a failed nation that has only known war, destruction and civil war
-Ethnic violence and tension
-Human rights abuses and genocide against ethnic minorities
-No hope left for it's redemption or salvation!
-The Taliban should be highlighted as an ethnic Pashtun hegemony in Afghanistan seeking to subdue all other ethnic groups + women in general.
Many propaganda videos can be made and shared of this violence, you can hire Tajiks to make speech videos of these demands and talking about the abuses of their ethnicity and the above talking points. They could otherwise propagate the idea of independence if the below demands are not met.
The goal here for Pakistan is to
get rid of Afghanistan's strategic leverage over Pakistan using the ethnic basis of Pashtuns!
The balkanisation of Afghanistan may not be in our interest but we should try to force the Afghans into accepting at least two demands:
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Re-naming Afghanistan to
Khorosan to fairly represent all groups rather than a single ethnicity.
-Push for
federalism where Tajik and Hazara lands have more autonomy themselves. Similar to Pakistan's provincial structure.
This will
weaken the narrative Afghanistan has used in the past and may use in the future to pressure Pakistan as they have done with claiming KPK/Balochistan using the "Afghan" card.
1. Due to federalism in Afg, we will have the power to retaliate if they choose to interfere in our internal affairs the same way they do in ours.
2. By using the name 'Khorosan' - they can no longer use the ethnic argument of 'every Pashtun is Afghan so that land belongs to Afghanistan' - they will simply both be multi-ethnic states.
With greater federalism and Tajik/Hazara representation we can more easily pressure them to not engage in anti-Pakistan activity.
As other ethnicities won't have the appetite to continuously engage Pakistan in conflict like last time
Even if this goal is not achieved, the political instability will increase and their morale will be broken - which is
still a win for us as this can be used as a bargaining chip against the Taliban covertly - clamp down on the TTP or we will use other ways to retaliate and make life difficult for you! A two-way street.
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