Re: Greater Pashtunistan
Hi guys good discussion.
Let me make a few corrections...
Pashtuns numbers in Pakistan Army is no more than 10%. Rest of the army is from Punjab. Second, ANP and other nationalist parties are the only parties in Pakistan with a clear vision and truly committed to moderation and secularism. Pakistan Army and Pakistani state togethor with other parties, including even PPP, have proved themselves to be unreliable with a history of the worst kind of nuclear proliferation, AL-Qaueda links (remeber how Air Chief Marshal Mashaf Ali Mir ....Gen Mehmoud Ahmad...Gen Hamid Gul...), promoting jehad, spreading destablization in the region, huring US-Western interests in the region, double dealing, etc.
ANP is acceptable to the West because it has been having a clean history and a real commitment to secular liberal values since it was established a century back ...and it has immensely paid for its liberal-secular ideals unlike the parties and forces from the east of Indus which have prostituted democracy etc. Unlike Punjab-centric forces, iIt doesn't harbour nuclear ambition or pursue Islamist expansionism ...If created, Pashtunistan and Baluchistan would be small states concerned with the well-being of their own citizens instead of spreading instablility the world over like Pakistani state under the control of Pakiistan Army has. or seeking Islamic nuclear bomb...
Mr. burqaposhx brother, i am sorry to point it to you but you are living in a fantasy world not aware or willing to accept that gone are the days of the Cold War...Pakistan Army is now a liability rather than being an asset to the great powers...Pakistan has this image of a dangerous and irrational state ...that is why Micheal Headden the CIA chief few days back said that all threats to the world peace trace back to Pakistan...So come out of your utopian world...
What the Western world is now doing is to manage the "soft collapse" of Pakistan, so eventually you have a Pakistan with weak center and strong provinces (like Iraq) and without nuclear weapons and with much weakened army...or if Pakistan refuses to be transformed then there will be no Pakistan but instead Pashtunistan, the city of Karachi as the free port, Sindhu Desh, Baluchistan.......... and the Punjab which will ultimately reluctantly join India because deprived of water, gas, electricty, port, etc. it will have no other option but join India...
In the 19th Century, the Western powers called Ottoman Empire as the sick man of Europe ...ultimately, they laid to rest the once mightiest Muslim Empire...