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In Afghan war, enter Sir Mortimer Durand
When the British decided to define the outer limits of their Indian empire, they fudged the question. After two disastrous wars in Afghanistan, they sent the Foreign Secretary of India, Sir Mortimer Durand, to Kabul in 1893 to agree the limits of British and Afghan influence. The result was the Durand Line which Pakistan considers today as its border and Afghanistan refuses to recognise. Then, rather than extend the rule of the Raj out to the Durand Line, the British baulked at pacifying the tribes in what is now Pakistans Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Instead, they used the still-extant Frontier Crimes Regulation of 1901 to keep them at bay, if necessary through collective punishment. The Pashtun tribes living on either side of the Durand Line continued to move back and forth, resenting outside interference and rejecting an arbitrary division of their lands by a foreign power......
In Afghan war, enter Sir Mortimer Durand | Pakistan: Now or Never?
Just to clarify.
Durand line is not "fudged". Only an idiot and ignoramus of our geography would deny the border or attribute this only to Sir Durand.
FYI!
Like many boundary lines around the world, this line follows the mountain range of Hindu Kash.
Hindu - Indian subcontinent region
Kash - means line (noun)
------ also Kash - to draw a line (verb), to draw or fetch (Cigarette ka kash as in smoking cigarette)
This line divided Afghanistani area on the West and Indian subcontinent regions on the East.
And thus it predates Brits by 100s of 1000s of years.
Sure there were kings and emperors who controlled both sides of this border. But the border still stood. And the kings and emperors used the "mountain passes" to cross this natural boundary line.
Khyber pass is the most famous among those passes.
Tribes and people always go across the boundaries. this is not unique to Pak-Af border
Tribes and people speak similar tongues across the boundaries. this is not unique to Pak-Af border
In some small sections on this border, Hindu Kash may not be making clear line, so you have to use mapping and survey techniques to define border there.
Let's cut this cr@p and make sure we do not trivialize important geographical feature that exists on our Western boundary.
Pakistan should respect this and all or our borders.
Afghanistanis too must respect this border. We must institute the liberal visa regime for the tribes who have relatives on either side of the border.
But we must declare these tribes as citizens of the country where they declare their residence as "permanent".
Let's move to current times instead of living in an era that existed centuries ago.
peace
p.s. Brits introduced modern methods of doing survey and developing maps. We should give credit to Brits then for developing modern day maps.