Comments Related To: Redrawn theoretical map makes Pakistan uneasy, says IHT

Great original report MarcusCato. Thanks!

Thanks for your encouragement, GoGreen

Great report! I am glad that you have covered a very important issue using what I call a “fact-oriented” approach. I will definitely play my role by spreading this useful piece of information to as many people as possible to relieve their apprehensions.

I just want to acknowledge you for your work..because very few of us actually believe all you have written and proved in your report. Most of us are living in a fallacy that the predictions would be correct and our home land Pakistan will not even exist on the map what to talk of having half sized Pakistan. I want to thank you MarcusCato for making all of realize facts and distorting our misperceptions.

I would like to bring to limelight one more point since Pakistan is having trouble maintaining relations with its own provinces, it should leave the Kashmir problem to be sorted out by Kashmir and India. By putting two legs in two boats at the same time, it would not help Pakistan's future, since its neighbours India, China and even Iran are progressing rapidly. Pakistan could be a much better player in the world if it co-operates with its neighbours rather than harboring terrorism.

Siegfriedhks,thanks for your comment. In order to respond properly, I have to write a lengthy explanation for which I hope you will excuse me.

The first point I wish to make is that terrorists never prosper, for if they prosper, none dare call them terrorists; they become freedom fighters, and heads of government and heroes. Such has been the history of nations that won their freedom against colonial or alien rule, even before the American revolution.

Right now Pakistan has completed the transition from supporting the Kashmiri armed freedom struggle to sitting down with India and resolving decades old problems through negotiation and cooperation. Remember though, it takes too hands to clap and India's response to Pakistan's overtures has been muted and guarded.

Coming to our western border Siegredhks, I am sure you know the Afghan people never threatened the Western interests before Soviet military intervention in 1979 brought Arab jihadis to Afghanistan. After the Geneva Accord a civil war broke out in Afghanistan and the western powers, especially USA, pulled the plug and left the region post haste. The Taliban took over, because originally people were attracted to their strict moral code and honesty.
The Afghan Taliban, who were almost 100% Pashtun, had studied in Pakistani madrasas financed by Saudi Arabia and other Arabs, with the blessings of the USA. (Read my previous article on Dog Fighting in Kabul to see how some things have gone to the dogs since the Taliban were ousted from power).

Then Osama bin Laden left Sudan and returned to Afghanistan. We all know that what his followers did on 9/11 brought retribution to the Afghan Pashtuns--the Talibans were bombed to kingdom come and now they have regrouped and are hitting back.(Read DrSivana's article: "Don't bomb Afghan wedding parties") http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/808940-afghanistan-wedding

Taliban Pashtuns from Pakistan have also been sucked into the struggle, which they are also waging against their own country's legitimate government because it is trying its best to curb them.

Coming to relations among Pakistan's provinces, power sharing through democracy and federalism and sharing of economic benefits is the way forward. Right now we have a government that works, though imperfectly, and there is ample food and clothing for the people, as well as for millions of Afghanis living in Pakistan and in Afghanistan. We have to control our borders, however, end smuggling, and provide jobs for our people, especially the Pashtuns, who have the highest birth rate in the world.