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An extreme Pakistani nationalist using the internet handle of "Orakzai" has been talking of annexing Afghanistan.
Let's just say there was an imaginary annexation of Afghanistan by Pakistan (which would never happen), this is what we could expect.
1. Pakistan a state still traumatized by their defeat and humiliation in 1971 at the hands of Bengalis would become even more paranoid at the propsect of seeing more aggressive and more martial Afghans secede (Bengalis are generally a soft race).
2. There would have to be new constitutional arrangements made as to how many provinces of Afghanistan would be added to Pakistan's current total of 4 main provinces.
Kashmir, GB are excluded from being part of the 4 mainstream provinces of Pakistan.
3. Who will police the newly conquered Afghanistan?
Pakistan is finding it hard enough to keep Balochistan and FATA inline and at least 0.1 million troops in the FATA and adjacent regions.
In fact Pakistani nationalists worry about how this deployment of massive manpower weakens their military presence on their eastern border with their "real" enemy, India.
4. Where will Pakistan find the money to bring Afghan GDP up to the levels of Pakistani GDP?
5. How will Pakistan deal with millions of Afghans migrating to Punjab and Karachi?
Karachi is already at the seams with around 20 million people and growing and is ridden with tension and conflict.
6. How will Pakistan deal with absoring the Baloch of Afghanistan i.e. in Zabul.
Anyway everyone knows that Pakistan can never annex Afghanistan. Afghans look down on Pakistanis as racially inferior for starters and in addition there are many other reasons.
However even constantly regurgitating this nonsense of Pakistan annexing Afghanistan (when they can't even control Balochistan or FATA and have a population where 41 million people don't have toilets) is pathetic, so Orakzai and others should refrain from it.
Let's just say there was an imaginary annexation of Afghanistan by Pakistan (which would never happen), this is what we could expect.
1. Pakistan a state still traumatized by their defeat and humiliation in 1971 at the hands of Bengalis would become even more paranoid at the propsect of seeing more aggressive and more martial Afghans secede (Bengalis are generally a soft race).
2. There would have to be new constitutional arrangements made as to how many provinces of Afghanistan would be added to Pakistan's current total of 4 main provinces.
Kashmir, GB are excluded from being part of the 4 mainstream provinces of Pakistan.
3. Who will police the newly conquered Afghanistan?
Pakistan is finding it hard enough to keep Balochistan and FATA inline and at least 0.1 million troops in the FATA and adjacent regions.
In fact Pakistani nationalists worry about how this deployment of massive manpower weakens their military presence on their eastern border with their "real" enemy, India.
4. Where will Pakistan find the money to bring Afghan GDP up to the levels of Pakistani GDP?
5. How will Pakistan deal with millions of Afghans migrating to Punjab and Karachi?
Karachi is already at the seams with around 20 million people and growing and is ridden with tension and conflict.
6. How will Pakistan deal with absoring the Baloch of Afghanistan i.e. in Zabul.
Anyway everyone knows that Pakistan can never annex Afghanistan. Afghans look down on Pakistanis as racially inferior for starters and in addition there are many other reasons.
However even constantly regurgitating this nonsense of Pakistan annexing Afghanistan (when they can't even control Balochistan or FATA and have a population where 41 million people don't have toilets) is pathetic, so Orakzai and others should refrain from it.
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