'Great Afghanistan' as usually portrayed by Afghan nationalists

The new map of Afghanistan encompassing; modern-day Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Pakistani Balochistan.
What's wrong with this map?
Well, considering that the purpose of Afghan nationalism is to reunite ethnic Pashtuns from across the Durand line, this map does a good job of it. However, the extension of territory into Balochistan is not something I can understand.
Balochistan was for a brief period part of the Durrani confederate. This is the normal argument that is portrayed by Afghan nationalists.
What they fail to mention is, Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir were also a part of the confederacy... but there is no desire to include these areas. The Balouch are not any closer to Pashtuns than they are to Punjabis or Sindhis either. They are an independent ethnic group with their own territory.
Moreover, Balochistan actually acquired its independence from Afghanistan during Ahmad Khan Abdali's own lifetime. [Refer to Noori Naseer Khan Baloch] It remained an independent state and later became a British protectorate called the 'Kalat Confederacy', comprising all the areas south of British Balochistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
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So what is Loy Afghanistan?

Some might say this is more accurate, as it only includes the areas of Pakistan with Pashtun majority populations.
But wait a second, what is the north of Afghanistan doing in this map?
If the purpose of Pashtun nationalism is to unite Pashtuns in a single country, then wouldn't it be accurate to divide the Pashtun dominated areas in modern-day Afghanistan from - Hazarajat & the Uzbek-Turkmen-Tajik dominated North? After all, the culture of Balkh, Badakhshan, Jowzjan and Herat is very different from that of Kandahar, Helmand, Jalalabad or Nangarhar.
What I'm proposing is, in order for Loy Afghanistan to exist, the Afghan nationalists must first recognise that there is no reason to keep control over areas which belong to different ethnic groups. The northern Afghans are Persians, Uzbeks or Turkmen, while you are 'Afghans'. So rather than just claiming territory east of the Durand line, you must also accept the separation of Pashtuns from the other Afghan national ethnic groups.

Where Dari begins, Afghanistan ends.

The new map of Afghanistan encompassing; modern-day Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Pakistani Balochistan.
What's wrong with this map?
Well, considering that the purpose of Afghan nationalism is to reunite ethnic Pashtuns from across the Durand line, this map does a good job of it. However, the extension of territory into Balochistan is not something I can understand.
Balochistan was for a brief period part of the Durrani confederate. This is the normal argument that is portrayed by Afghan nationalists.
What they fail to mention is, Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir were also a part of the confederacy... but there is no desire to include these areas. The Balouch are not any closer to Pashtuns than they are to Punjabis or Sindhis either. They are an independent ethnic group with their own territory.
Moreover, Balochistan actually acquired its independence from Afghanistan during Ahmad Khan Abdali's own lifetime. [Refer to Noori Naseer Khan Baloch] It remained an independent state and later became a British protectorate called the 'Kalat Confederacy', comprising all the areas south of British Balochistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
.jpg)
So what is Loy Afghanistan?

Some might say this is more accurate, as it only includes the areas of Pakistan with Pashtun majority populations.
But wait a second, what is the north of Afghanistan doing in this map?
If the purpose of Pashtun nationalism is to unite Pashtuns in a single country, then wouldn't it be accurate to divide the Pashtun dominated areas in modern-day Afghanistan from - Hazarajat & the Uzbek-Turkmen-Tajik dominated North? After all, the culture of Balkh, Badakhshan, Jowzjan and Herat is very different from that of Kandahar, Helmand, Jalalabad or Nangarhar.
What I'm proposing is, in order for Loy Afghanistan to exist, the Afghan nationalists must first recognise that there is no reason to keep control over areas which belong to different ethnic groups. The northern Afghans are Persians, Uzbeks or Turkmen, while you are 'Afghans'. So rather than just claiming territory east of the Durand line, you must also accept the separation of Pashtuns from the other Afghan national ethnic groups.
Where Dari begins, Afghanistan ends.


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