PAC or Pak Afghan Confederation

Great idea. In practice Islamabad will probably not want even more ethnic groups, then we already have. Just the pakhtuns plz.

Edited by Sparten - 06-Sep-2007 at 15:24

The idea of a confederation between Pakistan and Afghanistan is an ancient one and is the likely outcome of relationship of these two ''Afghan'' domains.  Even at current, the disputes between the two countries seem like a dispute between two brothers which are marred in petty politics lol! Afghan being the older brother and Pakistan the younger.   I for one, also think thats its the inevitable future of Pakistan, though many seem to think that its against Pakistans interest, this is a very short sighted analysis, because in the medium to long term its a win-win situation for both countries.  Most Pakistani, and most Afghani I have spoken to, also agree that it is in the best interest of our nations to put aside petty politics, and work for the common re-unification of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Interestingly, an attempt was made in the 1950's to initiate the creation of a confederation of Afghanistan with Pakistan.

Edited by pumaaa123 - 07-Sep-2007 at 00:41

sorry, but i was only pointing out his mistake

A very well analyzed and defined post dear MarcoPolo \ Now the only requirement to implement it is by eleborating it to our young generation and clean their brains set by the foriegn media, regional politics and foriegn games.

Nothing wrong with the idea, but as spartan pointed out earlier, not likely to happen.

 

Too many ethnicities, for now, and also gharanai, u try to convince both can get better by benefitting from each other.

But the fact is, for now, afghanistan has not much to offer to pakistan (i will have to put a questionmark on ur claims of vast unexplored natural resources). Still that is not a reason for not forming a union, sad thing is though, as u will know well, it is not the pakistani's who would oppose to such a proposition much, but the afghan's. Im talking about public opinion from 1947 onwards, to date.

 

U said ur other afghan friends, tajiks, hazara's, uzbek, have cited their optimism. Sadly they don't seem to behave that way generally.

Once ur fellow countrymen are in the west, via pakistan, they only talk "not nice" about my country.

I will honestly tell u i didn't know much about this hate ur countrymen carry towards pakistan, untill they started popping up, here. Before that i didn't hear from one pakistani about our difficult relationship, they always rejoiced themselves, thinking about the defeat of russia in afghanistan, and how we together, pakistan,afghanistan, took care of that problem.

It was only till i met ur first afghan- pashtun, educated in india, fellow countrymen, i was astonished.

 

Bottom-line : very much surprised, an afghan did this proposition about uniting, rather than incorporating.

 

@CHAUDRY and pretty much anyone who is having problems grasping this novel concept...

What we are dealing with here is an idea that clearly diverges from or perhaps has not really been considered by mainstream thought in Afganistan/Pakistan.

It is the small minority of innovative thinkers that lead a country towards positive change. Clearly the percieved experience of people and their world view is fickle at best. Chaudry mentioned that Pakistanis united with their brothers in Afghanistan to drive out the Russians, how quickly and how divergently does the memory of this triumph change once the event became tainted by a negative experience. The power vacuume left by the Russian withdrawl from Afghanistan unfortunately created a conflict ridden enviromnment of which obviously did not appeal to certain minorities, thus the negative impression left towards Pakistanis in general.

About what Afganistan can offer Pakistan, my opinion is that one cannot look at the concept of unification (reunification) from one particular angle. More productively, one should look at what both countries can offer eachother - and that is political stability, which was already mentioned. Also economic viability, in a global market the Union would offer a wealthly and lucrative labor market with access to and transit routes connecting neighbouring countries...the possibilities become listless once one considers them.

My question or comment is that, myself, living in Canada have been previlaged to live in a modest plural society. My cultural world view is seen through this lense, to acknowledge and respect cultural differences. My feelling is that for such a union to flourish, there needs to be an emphasis in Pluralism in a Secular, Democratic Society with an emphasis on the Rule of Law balanced by political accountability.