We should only annex Wakhan Corridor, annexing anything else will simply invite more terrorism in our country.
BBC Urdu is mouth piece of Indian establishment. The sheer amount of negative articles/vlogs coming out of BBC urdu against Pakistan is staggering. DW is no better and their track record clearly points to a bias against Pakistan.
Like I said BBC and DW aren't Pakistani so they don't count. Now, look how Pakistani English media such as The Express Tribune, The News International, Profit by Pakistan Today, Global Village Space, ProPakistani and Business Recorder are all far superior to every single Pakistani Urdu news channel. Dawn is the only exception here but even anti-Pakistan Dawn usually posts more rational things than what our Urdu media posts.
Pakistan could either:
- Purchase this narrow strip of Wakhan Corridor from afghans.
- Occupy it.
- Incentivize tribal leaders of this strip to join Pakistan.
- Go around it.
- etc.
I was of this opinion back in 2014 too
Pakistan should establish highway and rail links with both China and Russia. Tajikistan & Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan will also be linked. There is a narrow strip of Afghanistan that comes in the way too.
It is said that Russian invasion of Afghanistan was ambition to reach warm waters!! Making such road\rail links will give these countries access to Arabian-Sea without them needing to invade anyone. It would be a win-win for all.
At the time Karakoram Highway was built, technology was not what engineers have today. It would be much easier, & safer to build high quality road\rail link now. Breaching the Himalayas should be relatively easy task now. To shorten the distance, raise it rather high as a bridge to avoid serpentine longer distances.
To avoid that narrow strip of Afghanistan, we can build the main highway+rail to China & the link from Russia & Russian states could join that primary link in China. Thus skipping Afghanistan.
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We should make a confederation with Afghanistan where we only have same currency, passport, foreign affairs and defence. Afghanistan and Pakistan would have autonomy to do everything else and have separate state banks as well. In the Short term joining with Afghanistan will cause us issues however in the long term it will be much more beneficial because Pakistan will have direct access to Central Asia and have borders with it, have access to cheap Tajiki gas without paying transit fees, will give us more strategic dept and we will have access to the mineral wealth if Afghanistan. Overtime Afghanistan will eventually become stabile and together Pakistan and Afghanistans exports will be a lot which will help us build a very strong army for india. Nothing is impossible. If we can defeat terrorism in ex fata then we can pacify Afghanistan and the long term benefits will far out weight the short term costs. Taliban won’t behave how they do once they start making billions from tax and have more power.
Honestly BBC Urdu is a disgrace, how they claim "impartially" is a joke. All they do is spread propoganda and biased news againt Pakistan
Exactly the Afghanistani Pathans I could relate too. I have many Afghanistani childhood friends.
Yes the pipeline can be build through Tajikistan and China then to Pakistan bypassing Afghanistan.
