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Core India and Gap Pakistan
"India’s role in rebuilding Afghanistan: In spite of hurdles imposed by Pakistan, India has played a meaningful role in Afghanistan," The Acorn, http://opinion.paifamily.com/index.php?p=1247, 14 February 2005.
"Regarding the CIA’s soothsayers: The CIA’s predictions for India and Pakistan cannot simultaneously come true," The Acorn, http://opinion.paifamily.com/index.php?p=1248, 15 February 2005.
In spite of hurdles imposed by Pakistan, India has played a meaningful role in Afghanistan
The Acorn has two posts contrasting India and Pakistan. India is a responsible player spreading connectedness, despite Pakistan's efforts
New Delhi currently spends around $100 million on various projects and $70 million on the reconstruction of a 213-kilometer road from Zaranj to Delaram in Afghanistan. This ‘new silk route’ road is the result of a project between India, Iran and Afghanistan to develop trade with Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The route will utilise the Chabahar port in Iran to send goods to Afghanistan and to Central Asian countries. New Delhi has gifted three Airbus aircraft along with crew to support Arian Afghan Airlines, and more than 270 Indian buses currently ply in Kabul, Kandahar and Herat. In 2002, 18 Afghan judges and lawyers were trained at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi. An IT specialist has been deputed to the Afghan government. In the foreign minister’s office in Kabul, a local area network with Internet access via an Indian company has been set up while Afghan bureaucrats are being trained in the use of computers.
Three Reserve Bank of India officials were deputed to the Central Bank of Afghanistan in July 2002. A team of 30 Indian doctors treats thousands of patients every week while $4 million has been allotted for the rehabilitation of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health. New Delhi will gift 300 vehicles to the Afghan National Army once Pakistan allows their transit. Pakistan allows Afghan exports to India via Wahga, but not vice versa. Thus, every day, a large numbers of trucks cross Wahga carrying dry fruit and carpets but return empty. No country is spending in Afghanistan as much as India, except for the United States, which spends $900 million annually. So far, India’s efforts in Afghanistan have the backing of the United States and Russia. Indian analysts say India’s interests are two-fold: it does not want the Taliban to resurface; and it wants the new Afghan security structure to be free of anti-India elements
Pakistan, meanwhile...
But, contrary to the Bush administration’s belief, the possibility of an implosion in Pakistan is very much real as long as its army retains control. There any so many rifts and divides in Pakistan that a fundamentally hamfisted dictatorship cannot heal or reconcile. Pakistan needs national reconciliation and the steady, irreversible return of the army to its barracks.
Until that happens, Pakistan will remain the borderline about-to-fail state that we have become used to. Unfortunately, foreign policy in America and New Delhi is doing nothing to veer away from this unhappy path. If the current equations continue, India can, without doubt, continue to register healthy economic growth, but Pakistan will remain a Damocles’ sword hanging over its head.
Consider that the Army is the only respected and stable institution in Pakistan, this is not good news.
Pakistan is an imaginary state. It's east is an extension of India while the west is made out of pieces of Balucistan and Pashtunistan. Pakistan is a nuclear state with a rogue intelligence service. Dealing with Islamabad's failures is a great problem of our times.
02:35 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Central Asia, South Asia | Permalink | Comments (9) | Email this | Tags: india, pakistan, core, gap
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HELLO! TO EVERY BODY FROM,
INDEPENDANT PAKHTUNKHWA.
(A country not yet created, but it exists in our pakhtun hearts. Pakhtunistan is the home of pakhtuns. Pakhtun is another name for Afghans. Afghans speak Afghani(pashto). They live by their traditional laws called Pakhtunwali, hence another name pakhtun. When afghans conquered India, the Indians gave them the name( THE PATHANS). Afghani is spoken in two dialects, hence their name might sound differently (pakhtun-pashtun,pakhto-pashto, pakhtunistan-pashtunistan), but mean exactly the same. The word Afghan lost its priority because of great confusion that it created due changes in history and geography.(FOR DETAIL SEE OUR OLD WEBSITE).
At present the country Afghanistan constitutes Afghans, tajiks, uzbeks & hazaras. The Afghans have a law in Pakhtunwali i.e (to grant asylum ). In the former times these peoples use to come for jobs and trade purposes, some of them are living on Afghan land since then. After the communist revolution, a huge number of refugees were granted asylum by Afghans as their muslim brothers.
On the other hand a large part of former Afghanistan, inhabited by true Afghans came under british rule and later became a part of pakistan. The durand line seperated Afghans from their parent country. This land of Afghanistan was further divided into three parts.(basis of division was british formula-(DIVIDE & RULE). These areas are( Quetta&related areas), (Tribal areas) and ( North west frontier province).
Our struggle is to unite these areas into one province (independant Pakhtunistan or Pakhtunkhwa) and if pakistan continues discrimination, then azad or a seperate homeland for pakhtuns or otherwise Greater Afghanistan. The Afghans living in Pakhtunistan for more than fifty years as pakistanis forget their AFGHAN identity and hence came up with the name pakhtun and pakhtunistan or pakhtunkhwa (a name used by Afghan king Ahmad Shah Abdali while he was in India.)
Posted by: listen-please | Saturday, July 30, 2005
Listen-Please,
An interesting and informative comment. Thank you. I agree that the borders of the Sub-Continent are largely arbitrary.
Would Baluchistan be included in Pakthunkwha?
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/03/26/india_works_pakistan_doesn_t.html
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Saturday, July 30, 2005
Ediot!
Posted by: Hammad | Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The you people(This site) give comments on Pakistan is not helping yourself to give relief to Afghanistan and to India.
Posted by: Hammad | Wednesday, February 14, 2007
pushton will never pushtonistanif they rely on other people relief we have enough mineral gas electricity we can look after our selves but the problem with pushton they have no brain always relying on punjabies its a shame that pushton have to look forward to a punjabi to change there name they keep on brain washing pushton in the name of khan pathan kyber pass north west frontier taliban but when it come a pushtonkwa or pushtonistan the punjabi are saying its a negative word i am myself is emberrased for being pushton when we are going to get pushtonistan i dont think we will ever get it we are like dogs fighting amongst our selves
Posted by: nazarrabi | Thursday, March 01, 2007
Nazarrabi -- Thank you for your comment. You gave one of the most insightful and informative posts on the issue of teh Pustons and the Punjabis in the history of this blog.
Again, thank you.
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Well, Its fashionable to say that pakistan is an about to fail state in indian and jewish/zionist circles. However it has remained a wishful thinking. Will it remain a wishful thinking? time will only tell.
It is very true that the international boundaries in south asia are imaginary. Why because they were drawn by the British when they were in a hurry to leave the subcontinent and were not interested in what heppens next.
Pakistan has been able to defy all predictions about its failed status and lumbar on for 60 years. Now that it has got nuclear weapons, the scenario has changed alltogether. It is very nice to say that Pakistan will break up, but will it? I dont think so.
Why? because the people in pakistan are united in their misery and depriviation.
There is a single rallying point in the whole of Pakitan and that is their religion. People have been trying to break it by promoting ethnic and sectarion tensions but to no avail.
It is one thing to hope and think that pakistan would breakup, but its entirely different to think about what will happen if it did? will it be affordable? with the stakes being high I doubt it.
Add to the quagmire the interest Chinese are taking in this neo-great game of the sub-continent, and the things take a whole different shape.
Once again the big nations of the world are playing each other in the mountains and valleys of the greatest playing field of the world.
Who lost last time? and who will win this time? Only time will tell. But signs are that with failing public support at home USA has little to gain. It will be extremely painful to withdraw troops. Will the govt who carries out this mamoth task survive the economic aftermath, let alone the next election, only time will tell.
India on the other hand is being boosted economically. Will that pose a threat to Pakistan? I doubt it. Economic growth after a war is good. BUT if economic growth precedes a war, then the financial gains are lost forever. Can the pundits with big bucks to lose in a war would risk it happening? I doubt it.
In the meantime to think that Pakistan will implode and fall under its own weight is dreaming of the most wishful kind. Pakistan will not break without a war with an external aggressor (read india). But with economic growth raising the stakes of losses I doubt that it will ever happen in the near or far future.
In the meantime what will such bloggs and articles achieve? not much I think.
So dream on untill you wake to the reality.
Posted by: Mark | Sunday, March 11, 2007
Mark,
Thank you for your comment. I assure you my thoughts here are more than dreams.
I started to reply as a comment, but I realized that the length made it work better as a new post. [1] So I hope you can follow & enjoy the discussion as it evolves.
Take care
[1] http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/03/11/pakistan-failing.html
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Sunday, March 11, 2007
dear brothers and sisters if a pushton need to succeed they need structure and they need to unite pushtons from both sides afghanistan and pakistan for the pushtons the challenge should be a name to get recongnition first without a recongnitioon or the unity of pushtons in both sides it would be impossible for pushtons to go forward right now we are divided the east and the west german was divided by the british they back together the hong kong was with british the chinese took it back from the british what i really dont understand the government of pakistan gave the power and recongnised taliban in afghanistan then the pakistan government went with the america to get rid of taliban so many pushtons died in that war before that they used pushtons to break russia this was also game was played by the british and americans pakistan as well so many pushtons died in that war pushtons nevr learnt a lesson from anyone of these wars some how tha pakistan government want the taliban system extremely religious system in north west frontier pushton za but they do not recongnised as the north west pushton kwa or pushtonistan they saying that pakhtoon kwa or pushtonistan is a negative word i think we need to know who is playing game with us with our women and children our leaders or councillers should realise this by now although we are in twenty frist century we are still looking forward to other people how to run our life today the pushtons are dieing in karachi and they holding nobody responsible for that pushton killing pushton on both sides of the darini line there is no media or spotlight out there to give us exact fiqures how many people died pushtons blood got no value the pakistan army taking money from america in the name of terrorist at the same time taking money from saudi arabia in the name of islam all the stones cement oil gas electricity go to punjab or karachi our elders working for a cheap labour as a slave in the mountains or in the hills in the caves digging coal by the age of thirty four our elders die nobody ask questions there is no systems to monitor why these people dieing like flies if thats not the case those who survive or there children fighting for other people interest for example you see pushtons dieing in the name of islams in kasmir the kasmiries have there recongniton they even have a flag the same people calling us a shoe polishers if pushtons are dieing for other people interest or recongnitoon why cant pushtons have a unity to recongnise there children in the world today punjab is punjab sind is sind the arab is the arab iran ir iran all these azbiks tajiks everyone of them is recongnise but when it come to a pushtons recongniton they says to us its against islams we should our mother language interest frist those who says to us this is wrong they our enemy our own interest come first our own secxurity as for the defensive when the punjab government test there nuclear bombs they test it in north wewst frontier or balochistan frontier has been attacked by the american plane before killing pushtons in waziristan they blame it on pakistan army but ever since did they hold any body responsible no how would we know they testing these bombs in our land and they keep the bombs in punjab how would we know that these people would defend us the indians coming straight from india to karachi at the same time they are closing borders between north west frontier and afghanistan dividing pushtons waking pushton you are in twenty first century you have no structure at all if tommorow china russia iran anyone of these country attack you you are defence less as for the economy structure we dont even have one we dont even have a treasure pot to invest money for our children we dont even have the basic bank so we can invest money for our people all the money that we earn it goes to a punjabibank or the jews bank we earn it they use it we dont even have a right for our own language in the schools pushtons area it have to be english urdu arabic or iranien pushtoner where were you when allah was giving brain away allah be with you
Posted by: nazar rabi | Saturday, May 26, 2007