Durandlinjen - en brittisk skamlighet

Durandlinjen Δ

är den gränsdragning i Hindu Kush, vilken verenskoms i Durandfrdraget 1893, och som fortfarande utgr gränsen mellan Afganistan och Pakistan. Avtalet skrevs under av härskaren i Kabul fr Afganistan och av dåvarande vicekonungen uti Brittiska Indien!
Hur som helst så medfrde kriget 1878-80 att området bebott av Pashtunstammen delades tvärsigenom av Durand. "The tribal area was divided into roughly equal spheres of influence". På den brittisk-indiska sidan (nuvarande pakistanska sidan) frekom sen flera stamuppror men inga alls på den afganska sidan. Folket som bodde där erkände aldrig gränsen, de hade inte behov av någon gräns där mr Durand drog den.   Att Pastunerna egentligen bort få ett eget land —   står väl numera klart fr alla?
Durandlinjen

Only justice, not bombs, 
can make our dangerous world a safer place

By Robert Fisk

We have gone on smashing away at the human rights we trumpeted at the Russians - and the Arabs - during the Cold War. We have perhaps fatally weakened all those provisions that were written into our treaties and conventions in the aftermath of the Second World War to make the world a safer place. And we claim we are winning.

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The current US thinking leans towards equipping select Pashtun tribes to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It is a controversial move that worries the Pakistani military, as it might ignite violence in the Pashtun regions inside Pakistan and fuel the Pashtunistan demand.

Besides, Obana has bluntly warned that he would get the US Special Forces to strike inside the Pakistani territory if the security situation warranted. Such moves will be seen by the Pakistani military as a humiliating slap on its face. [ ... ]

What is more disconcerting for the Pakistani military is the likelihood that Obana's "exit strategi" will emphasize the rapid build-up of a 134,000-strong Afghan national army. [ ... ]

However, the law of diminishing returns begins to work for the Pakistani military once an Afghan national army gains traction. Indeed, an Afghan army will, most certainly, be led by ethnic Tajik officers. [ ... ]