Although seems ideal but the point here is AF-PK confederation ?? We are loosing the relations what we have with each other .I wish it does happened but who and how it will be done.
I think GHQ just signalling the Afghanistan either Pakistan or India. If India, then Afghanistan is just like another state having no special favors. Harsh but truth.
Yes ... In the US:
the North invaded the South when the South succeeded from the American Union -- Many Southerns hated the the North for many generations -- today they are proud Americans.
If you read the US civil war history which happened not too far back in history -- the North devastated the South to get the South the surrender. Abraham Lincon knew how could not have an independent South that would be a headache and open to exploitation by foreign powers. So he too the costly step of defeating it.
Similarly I think Pakistanis have no option but to impose extreme costs on the Afghan elite. The common Afghan (the refugee in Pakistan) would gladly accept the Pakistani citizenship.
To me what makes sense is the continued, consistent containment of Afghanistan that will last decades -- for this insulation is needed to insulate Pakistan from Afghanistan. The costs are not trivial but very manageable I suspect. The costs can be offset by the reduced drug trade, reduced militancy, increased trade with China and India.
if you are talking about the grass grown in Afghanistan then no, otherwise your this sentence makes no sense in this situation
Edited: the entire post did not make any sense in this context.
Eating Grass as in Zulifar Bhutto said ... Pakistan will eat Grass but become a Nuclear Power
My submission is that the Afghan project needs to be treated as such -- a Strategic project with existential repercussions
Eating grass is not desired but the current order in Afghanistan cannot be allowed to continue -- it has proven itself treacherous.
Many historians and scholars have predicted that Afghanistan and Pakistan will eventually merge into one entity -- and I don't mean lal-topi-wala or Jurnail-Gul-sab.
You get your strategic depth -- you get diversity -- you get access to central asia -- your remove a weak exploitable neighborhood -- that union can be called Afghanistan if the Afghans want that ... but it also furthers Pakistan's aspirations for regional power status.