If it could be done, it would have been done.

Iraq war 2003 is evidence for that^

There is no doubt about Pakistan's interference in Afghanistan and it is crystal clear as to "Why?".

Both our crucial neighbours (who can provide us access to the sea/world) are acting as our enemies. It would have been been so much better if at least one of them would have been on our side. We either have to make friendship with one of these 2 countries or get rid of one.

There is absolutely no way for Afghanistan to align with Iran (from a Pashtun and Sunni perspective - they would Shiaize and Persianize the entire country in no time). Breaking and weakening Iran is also out of the question at the moment.

Therefore Pakistan plays a very important role. If Afghanistan wants to have a piece of mind, it either has to breakdown Pakistan into smaller states (we obviously can't do it ourself), or some how form a union/friendship with it. One way or another we have to guarantee Pakistan that we do not want Balochistan and Pakhtunkhwa any more and we are willing to accept the durrand line. Both break-up and union/friendship are possible.

The best thing about a union is that, neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan is losing any land. It will be a single and larger state - name it Ariana to keep every one happy.

This is my personal opinion and thought, but I have been thinking that one way or another, we have to solve our problems with Pakistan. Afghanistan can never afford to major enemies on 2 fronts blocking their access to the world, interfering in it's politics and so on.

This topics was started so we can discuss the UNION option between Afghanistan and Pakistan if it was every possible.

There can be many reasons like (1) two wars were more than enough for the time being (2) they needed a supply route and like a puppet, Pakistan was doing whatever the master ordered it to do - there was no reason to attack them (3) now that Pakistan has closed it's supply route, there is a very good reason for the Americans to take care of the Balochistan issue - a permanent and stable supply route (4) now that they are out of Iraq and will be reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan, they can easily attack Iran/Pakistan if/when needed (5) why should they attack interfere in Pakistan if they are planning to reduce their troops in Afghanistan? The answer can be why they attacked Afghanistan in the first place? or what would they gain from turning Pakistan into pieces? maybe cutting China's access to the Indian Ocean or all these other political and economic reasons (6) North Korea is not an issue for US and attacking it would be like strangling China - they will never in their dreams attack NK (7) and many more.

you say Iran can persianize whole Afghanistan population but what about Punjabizing whole Afghan population. Punjabis are not culturless poepel, they also have there own culture that for most of PAshtuns form afghanistan is totaly alien. Didn't you think about that.....

This is a funny comment. First of all, Pashtuns in this day and age are not capable of deciding who to live under. With such a staggering uneducated populace, we are in no position to control our fate, let alone "choose". Just yesterday I met an Afridi, and I was astonished at his views. He pretty much told me he is willing to spit on the name of Pashtunkhwa if it means he will be granted American citizenship. That's how bad the situation there is. Allow me to remind you, he is a Ph.D student studying Mathematics here at Cornell, and his objective is bringing his family to the US, from what he called the "ghetto"[Pakistan].

Pashtuns of Pukhtunkhwa live under the Punjabi/non-Pashtun cultural and military domination already, so I'm not sure if Persian would be any different. Either way you put, the situation is bad, real bad. I do agree that some teeney tiney progress has been made. Give Pashto 100 years in Pakistan, I can almost assure that if nothing changes in the upcoming decade, then Pashto is well on the verge of extinction in Pakistan. Despite having 50-60million speakers, the language is getting zero to none technical attention.

Since i joined the PF i have noticed that there is a strange punjabi phobia on our pakhtun minds we have our own culture there are various other cultures also and no state can ever have all its citizens having same ethenicity.

We should realize that we have been living in a single country even before Islam it was only when British Forces seperated us and now we are on the same path.

I think in a new state it will create a unique balance between Pakhtuns, Punjabi,(Sindhi & Seraiki) with pakhtuns having more provinces and a dominant chance of centeral government.

Remember we have since ages never converted anyone on our pakhtun culture , so no one can convert us also it is up to us we take care of our culture and make it intact.

Punjabi language and culture is almost the weakest in Pakistan. The lingua franca and national language of Pakistan is Urdu, not Punjabi. Pashto language is taught as a subject in schools, while Punjabi isn't - from what I have heard. There is absolutely no room for us to compare Persian with Punjabi or Iran with Pakistan. They are far more superior culturally, linguistically, economically, politically or in any other aspect than any other country in that region.

Any union with Iran will be disastrous for us Pashtuns, our language, our culture and our religion (Sunni-Islam).

Absolutely agree with you here.

If we were to ever create a union between Afghanistan & Pakistan, it is very likely that Pashtuns will be able to dominate it - well not if they remain asleep.

"Linguistic" census reduce Pakhtuns' population in Pakistan from 35 % to 15%
Jan Assakzai

Though the official number of Pakhtuns in Pakistan constitutes 15 percent of country's population, some NGOs and observers believe that their actual number could be between 40 to 50 million comprising over 35 percent of country's population, provided and "ethnic" demographic is carried out instead of "linguistic" census. The main reason for Pakhtuns' under counting is the census only choice: spoken-language-at home-principle whilst there is no racial or ethnic background choices available in the census form as is the case in multi-cultural countries like the United State or United Kingdom.

here is the article.. http://21centuryreforms.blogspot.ca/...-pakhtuns.html

never in a million years will i ever accept this idea

i would rather fence and mine the durand

i don't even trust afghans to run afghanistan, i sure as hell wouldn't trust non afghans who have historical animosity towards us to work well with us. in the grand scheme of an islamic union i think its possible...in like 200 years. both our houses are on fire, a union any time soon would just be a bigger house with bigger flames. afghanistan is trouble, and pakistan has played out its islamic solidarity card decades ago.

how do you propose a merger will solve any problems ? I do think that they need to work together and tackle their problems looking out for each other's interest..that will serve both countries better than a merger.