AgNoStiC MuSliM
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That is your opinion, and once again you are resorting to generalizations and mis characterizations. No one has said that the Afghans do not matter. Has the US cared for them? I find it surprising that a country with a Pashtun plurality woudl have a government, bar the Pres., that is staffed by NA officials. The US has done so deliberately, as the enemies of its enemy were put in power to support ist purpose in Afghanistan.Well, it may be. It is as Indian as the one linking the issues is a Pakistani POV.
Let us see what the Afghans think of it as well as the rest of the players in Afghanistan.
But what I see surprising is the utter lack of concern for the Afghanistani people here and willingness to hold them hostage to the resolution of Pakistan's pet peeve.
And it is not just Pakistan's pet peeve - that Indian activities against Pakistan from Afghanistan continue, and the Baluch militants find refuge (Marri was killed according to some sources in Afghanistan) there, indicate that both the current GoA and GoI are using Afghanistan to further the hostility and proxy war in their own interests.
Again, Indian involvement in Afghanistan, against Pakistan, stems from the hostility over Kashmir.
How the Duran border issue between Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Kashmir issue are related is beyond me.
Afghanistan may have taken India's help in that theater (its just an assumption as we don't have any proofs) and because of the general enmity between the countries India may have obliged but that enmity was not only over Kashmir but ran far deeper.
Kashmir is a symptom of the disease and not the disease itself. Once we diagnose and treat the actual disease, treating the symptom becomes easy.
The Durand is a separate issue, not related to kashmir, and I have not related it to Kashmir. I am not sure why you brought it up, other than to obfuscate.
Proofs? Maybe not, mostly books and Pakistani writers commenting on the issue much like Farrukh Saleem above. The tensions with Afghanistan over the border are another issue, that must also be resolved between the two sides. Kashmri plays its part in other ways, as I explained above, but is tied into the border issue, since Indian support for Afghan actions in the past woudl not have occurred had the dispute over Kashmir not existed.
The disease is Kashmir - the conventional wars stemmed from it. Then the proxy wars stemmed from it, and then the proxy wars in another nation stemmed from it. Beyond territorial disputes recognized by the international community Pakistan has no issue with India. If we are not contesting over territory, then there is n reason to fear the other.