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The inevitable peaceful union of Pakistan and Afghanistan
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The Inevitable Peaceful Union of Pakistan and Afghanistan
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The Inevitable Peaceful Union of Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Once the battle is lost and won.
Once the hurly burly is done
there will be time for peace and reconstruction
in Afghanistan.
Once the dust settles and the blood is washed.
Once the flag goes up to full mast.
Once the healing is done,
and the battle and lost and won,
it will be time to reassess our future.
Jis qom me ghadar hun, us qom ke mazbut Qilhe bi rait ban jaate hain!
ایک ھوں مسلم حرم کي پاسباني کے لیے
نیل کے ساھل سے لےکر تا بکاخاک کاشگر
Gauhar Ayub in his various writings procalims that King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan had agreed to a confederation with Pakistan with Zahir Shah as the titular head of state of the new country. Mr. Gauhar Ayub calls this an opportunity lost. The desire of uniting the Paskhtuns on both sides of the border is mutual.
The Future of peace is Afghanistan.
Jean Monnet recommended a United States of Europe. Some European like T.R. Reid, Andrew Reding, and Mark Leonard, among others, believe that the power of the hypothetical United States of Europe will rival that of the United States of America in the 21st century. Muslim intellectuals have been proposing a Muslim Union for Central Asia brought about by negotiations and discussion not warfare or conquest.
Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was the Jean Monnet of South Asia. The Original “Now or Never” was produced in 1939 by Ch. Rehmat Ali. This is the new “Now or Never- 2007″. A Muslim Asian Common-market like ASEAN or the EU.
“The Fatherland of Pak Nation (Ali 1940) “North West Frontier Province – is semantically non-descript and socially wrongful. It is non-descript because it merely indicates their geographical situation as a province of old ‘British India’ [which no longer exists]. It is wrongful because it suppresses the social entity of these people. In fact, it suppresses that entity so completely that when composing the name ‘Pakistan’ for our homelands, I had to call the North West Frontier Province the Afghan Province.“Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his book, “Pakistan”
The merger of Afghanistan and Pakistan is inevitable.
Pashtuns comprise over 15.42% of Pakistan’s population or 25.6 million people.[2] In Afghanistan, they make up an estimated 39%[19] to 42% of the population or 12.4 to 13.3 million people. The exact numbers remain uncertain, particularly in Afghanistan, and are affected by approximately 3 million Afghan refugees that remain in Pakistan, of which 81.5% or 2.49 million are ethnic Pashtuns.[3] An unknown number of refugees continue to reside in Iran.[20] A cumulative population assessment suggests a total of around 42 million across the region.
While Pakistan continues to develop from a young nation to a mature one, after passing through a tumultuous history having fought & survived 3 wars with a determined enemy to its east, poverty, a changing world politically/economically, soviet intervention and hostility from neighboring Afghanistan and more recently Nuclear brinkmanship from India and the war on terror. Pakistan has proven itself to be resilient, determined and very much at the front-line of world affairs, a place which invokes passionate resolve despite the multitude of problems facing it, neighboring countries and the region as a whole.
Many Political analysts, Afghans and Pakistani’s have discussed the possibility of forming a confederation between the two nations of Afghanistan & Pakistan.
Initially, the two nations would function under considerable autonomy, sharing only security, monetary and trade relations(already existent) and later on, as relations solidify and improve, there can be greater cohesion by unifying the political structure of these two nations.
There will no doubt be many hurdles on the way from pressure groups in both Pakistan & Afghanistan, but the idea of Afghanistan and Pakistan as united countries is not so far fetched and is a natural sequel of the region vis-a-vis current patterns of orientation, trade links, population movement, historical/cultural/linguistic spheres and public sentiment.
If one reads through history, you’ll find that the modern lands of Pakistan where in fact ‘Afghanistan’ just a few hundred years ago prior to British occupation.
In fact, the modern nation state of Afghanistan created by Shah Abdali consisted of all of modern day Afghanistan, and all of modern day Pakistan(including every province in it:Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, Kashmir). Coincidentally, the current Pakistan India border used to be the ancient border with Afghanistan.
I refer you to the following link from an Afghan site which shows a map during the time of Abdali
While Pakistan has surplus foods and is an established rising economic/regional power it suffers from a lack of natural resources and dominance of certain ethnic groups(mainly Punjabi who make up 46% of population, with the pushtuns in 2nd place at 18%) and a minority of Muslim refugees known as muhajir who came from India at the time of independence and were disproportionately represented in the countries services despite being less than 6% of the population.
In Afghanistan, the country suffers from severe food shortages, is landlocked, yet does contain many natural resources. Afghanistan also suffers bitter ethnic rivalry between the Pushtuns (about 40% of the population) and Tajiks(@ 27%) an urbanized, educated and elite group with both showing varying antagonism towards other smaller groups such as the Hazaras, Turkomen etc….
Union/Confederation of Pakistan and Afghanistan would help these two former ‘Afghan Domains’ compliment each other, help create a healthy & equitable balance between ethnic groups in both countries and return these two countries to their original culture/linguistic borders.
Many of the inherent difficulties the two nations currently suffer would in part be shared by the other half so to speak. Also, such a confederation would be a country of enormous potential, resources and strength in the region bringing along with it, stability, growth and prosperity to the entire region. It would also be by default a nuclear power and have considerable resources at its disposal.
Political analyst have always stated that such a state is and most likely will be inevitable in the near future but the issue is not of if& how this will happen but rather of when it will happen!
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Once the hurly burly is done
there will be time for peace and reconstruction
in Afghanistan.
Once the dust settles and the blood is washed.
Once the flag goes up to full mast.
Once the healing is done,
and the battle and lost and won,
it will be time to reassess our future.
Jis qom me ghadar hun, us qom ke mazbut Qilhe bi rait ban jaate hain!
ایک ھوں مسلم حرم کي پاسباني کے لیے
نیل کے ساھل سے لےکر تا بکاخاک کاشگر
Gauhar Ayub in his various writings procalims that King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan had agreed to a confederation with Pakistan with Zahir Shah as the titular head of state of the new country. Mr. Gauhar Ayub calls this an opportunity lost. The desire of uniting the Paskhtuns on both sides of the border is mutual.
The Future of peace is Afghanistan.
Jean Monnet recommended a United States of Europe. Some European like T.R. Reid, Andrew Reding, and Mark Leonard, among others, believe that the power of the hypothetical United States of Europe will rival that of the United States of America in the 21st century. Muslim intellectuals have been proposing a Muslim Union for Central Asia brought about by negotiations and discussion not warfare or conquest.
Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was the Jean Monnet of South Asia. The Original “Now or Never” was produced in 1939 by Ch. Rehmat Ali. This is the new “Now or Never- 2007″. A Muslim Asian Common-market like ASEAN or the EU.
“The Fatherland of Pak Nation (Ali 1940) “North West Frontier Province – is semantically non-descript and socially wrongful. It is non-descript because it merely indicates their geographical situation as a province of old ‘British India’ [which no longer exists]. It is wrongful because it suppresses the social entity of these people. In fact, it suppresses that entity so completely that when composing the name ‘Pakistan’ for our homelands, I had to call the North West Frontier Province the Afghan Province.“Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his book, “Pakistan”
The merger of Afghanistan and Pakistan is inevitable.
Pashtuns comprise over 15.42% of Pakistan’s population or 25.6 million people.[2] In Afghanistan, they make up an estimated 39%[19] to 42% of the population or 12.4 to 13.3 million people. The exact numbers remain uncertain, particularly in Afghanistan, and are affected by approximately 3 million Afghan refugees that remain in Pakistan, of which 81.5% or 2.49 million are ethnic Pashtuns.[3] An unknown number of refugees continue to reside in Iran.[20] A cumulative population assessment suggests a total of around 42 million across the region.
While Pakistan continues to develop from a young nation to a mature one, after passing through a tumultuous history having fought & survived 3 wars with a determined enemy to its east, poverty, a changing world politically/economically, soviet intervention and hostility from neighboring Afghanistan and more recently Nuclear brinkmanship from India and the war on terror. Pakistan has proven itself to be resilient, determined and very much at the front-line of world affairs, a place which invokes passionate resolve despite the multitude of problems facing it, neighboring countries and the region as a whole.
Many Political analysts, Afghans and Pakistani’s have discussed the possibility of forming a confederation between the two nations of Afghanistan & Pakistan.
Initially, the two nations would function under considerable autonomy, sharing only security, monetary and trade relations(already existent) and later on, as relations solidify and improve, there can be greater cohesion by unifying the political structure of these two nations.
There will no doubt be many hurdles on the way from pressure groups in both Pakistan & Afghanistan, but the idea of Afghanistan and Pakistan as united countries is not so far fetched and is a natural sequel of the region vis-a-vis current patterns of orientation, trade links, population movement, historical/cultural/linguistic spheres and public sentiment.
If one reads through history, you’ll find that the modern lands of Pakistan where in fact ‘Afghanistan’ just a few hundred years ago prior to British occupation.
In fact, the modern nation state of Afghanistan created by Shah Abdali consisted of all of modern day Afghanistan, and all of modern day Pakistan(including every province in it:Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, Kashmir). Coincidentally, the current Pakistan India border used to be the ancient border with Afghanistan.
I refer you to the following link from an Afghan site which shows a map during the time of Abdali
While Pakistan has surplus foods and is an established rising economic/regional power it suffers from a lack of natural resources and dominance of certain ethnic groups(mainly Punjabi who make up 46% of population, with the pushtuns in 2nd place at 18%) and a minority of Muslim refugees known as muhajir who came from India at the time of independence and were disproportionately represented in the countries services despite being less than 6% of the population.
In Afghanistan, the country suffers from severe food shortages, is landlocked, yet does contain many natural resources. Afghanistan also suffers bitter ethnic rivalry between the Pushtuns (about 40% of the population) and Tajiks(@ 27%) an urbanized, educated and elite group with both showing varying antagonism towards other smaller groups such as the Hazaras, Turkomen etc….
Union/Confederation of Pakistan and Afghanistan would help these two former ‘Afghan Domains’ compliment each other, help create a healthy & equitable balance between ethnic groups in both countries and return these two countries to their original culture/linguistic borders.
Many of the inherent difficulties the two nations currently suffer would in part be shared by the other half so to speak. Also, such a confederation would be a country of enormous potential, resources and strength in the region bringing along with it, stability, growth and prosperity to the entire region. It would also be by default a nuclear power and have considerable resources at its disposal.
Political analyst have always stated that such a state is and most likely will be inevitable in the near future but the issue is not of if& how this will happen but rather of when it will happen!
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http://pakistanledger.com/2009/09/18...d-afghanistan/
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