I KNOW THAT SOUNDS STRANGE ... UNTIL YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE REGION...
CONSIDER:
THE MOGULS WHO RULED INDIA AND WHAT WE CALL PAKISTAN...BEFORE THE BRITISH RAJ..CAME FROM KABUL...
THEY WERE AFGHANS...!
THE MOGUL EMPIRE RAN FROM KABUL TO DELHI FOR ABOUT 400 YEARS...
THE REASON FOR PAKISTAN'S EXISTENCE WAS TO SEPARATE THE MUSLIMS (MOGULS) FROM THE INDIAN HINDUS... PAKISTAN WAS SIMPLY THE MOST MUSLIM PART OF THE RAJ...AND IN 1947 IT WAS "CREATED" FROM WHOLE CLOTH...
THERE NEVER WAS AN "HISTORICAL" PAKISTAN...ONLY INDIA...AND AFGHANISTAN ARE "HISTORICAL" STATES...
THE VERY NOTION OF A "PAKISTAN" WAS "INVENTED" AROUND 1900 IN ANTICIPATION OF THE BREAK UP OF THE RAJ...
AFGHANISTAN WAS NOT A PART OF BRITISH INDIA BECAUSE THE BRITISH FEARED THE RUSSIANS AND THE RUSSIANS FEARED THE BRITISH...AND AFGHANISTAN WAS "LEFT ALONE"...(AFTER THREE BRITISH WARS!)...AS A BUFFER STATE...
SO THERE IS NOTHING SACRED ABOUT AFGHANISTAN OR PAKISTAN...THEY ARE REALLY "KISSING COUSINS"...
INDEED FOR THE PASHTOONS...LITERALLY COUSINS...! THE PASHTOON TRIBE AND CULTURE "SLOSHES" OVER INTO PAKISTAN FROM AFGHANISTAN...AND VIS-A-VERSA.
IN SHORT...PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN ARE REALLY ONE PEOPLE...
DIVIDED BY THE BRITISH ...AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE MOGUL EMPIRE...
THIS IS WHEN THE BRITSH STARTED BACKING INDIAN HINDUS AGAINST THE MOGUL MUSLIMS...WHICH PICKED UP SPEED AFTER THE "BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA" AFFAIR...
PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN SHOULD MERGE...AS THEY ARE HISTORICALLY ONE CULTURE AND RACE... THIS WOULD STABILIZE AFGHANISTAN...AND ALLOW THE US TO WORK WITH THE MORE EDUCATED AND LITERATE PAKISTANIS FOR STABILIZING THE REGION...
