Pakistan thrice tried to formalize Durand Line: Taliban official

[Braith.]

Pakistan thrice tried to formalize Durand Line: Taliban official

During the regime of Taliban, Islamabad tried to make the over 2,000-kilometre Durand Line a permanent border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a former diplomat of Taliban reveals.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif who was ambassador of Taliban to Islamabad says the country tried three times to formalize the border but it repeatedly received a negative response.

According to Mullah Zaif, first time Pakistan urged Taliban to accept the border when Mullah Abdul Raziq appointed as the interior minister, second time the regime was forced during the visit of Pakistan’s interior minister Moinuddin Haider to Kabul who also travelled to Kandahar for the same purpose.

Mullah Zaif says the demand was made for the third time during the presidency of General Parwiz Musharaf.

The line was drawn in 1893 as a temporarily border between Afghanistan and the British India based on an agreement.

When India partitioned in 1947 and Pakistan created, the Durand Line became a border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The line gives some of Afghanistan’s land to Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces.

But the 1893 agreement which was for 100 years has been expired.

Pakistan which does not agree to return Afghanistan’s land even tried during the Presidency of Hamid Karzai to give the border a permanent status but it again received a negative response.

Most of the issues between the two countries are believed to be the result of this line.

Source :The Nation

 

[schoolboy]

The history of the Durand line is quite interesting - not least because it has similarities to the McMahon line drawn out 20+ years later. In both cases one state (Afghanistan, China) was browbeaten into signing an agreement that favoured British colonial interests of the day. In both cases the underdog later repudiated the agreement on grounds of coercion - Afghanistan in 1947, China in 1949. The difference, of course was that China had military superiority that Afghanistan was lacking.

This is what a 2010 UK House of Commons research paper had to say on the Durand line:

The legal status of the Durand Line has never been definitively settled. Although the British policy was and remains that the line represents a legal frontier, Afghan arguments that it was never intended as such have considerable credibility, not least because it was always envisaged that “hot pursuit” in both directions across the line would be necessary if either side was to have any chance of controlling the area.

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP10-45/RP10-45.pdf

No wonder China has never ventured to comment on the Durand line.

 

[ABCharlie]

Just build a wall over durand line.

 

[BHarwana]

Just build a wall over durand line.

Why this is the best opportunity to annex Afghanistan in future.

 

[IceCold]

Do it forcefully.

 

[Areesh]

In both cases the underdog later repudiated the agreement on grounds of coercion - Afghanistan in 1947, China in 1949. The difference, of course was that China had military superiority that Afghanistan was lacking.

Don't know about Chinese but Afghan claims of coercion are a lie just like that 100 years clause is a lie that Afghans often talk about.

 

[Path-Finder]

Why this is the best opportunity to annex Afghanistan in future.

I am all for annexing afghan territory these indian Rs earning afghans forget the legally recognised borders of Pak internationally and dissolving the Durand line will only benefit us not them! something the indians don't tell them.

 

[ABCharlie]

Why this is the best opportunity to annex Afghanistan in future.

I dont think that's such a great idea for Pak.

 

[BHarwana]

I am all for annexing afghan territory these indian Rs earning afghans forget the legally recognised borders of Pak internationally and dissolving the Durand line will only benefit us not them! something the indians don't tell them.

I am speculating some thing more bigger let me paint a picture.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russ...r-with-afghanistan-putin.480533/#post-9250594
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/who-...ery-force-in-afghanistan.480458/#post-9249909

Just go through the threads and imagine what is happening. Any how too early for every thing but India has less chance now.

I dont think that's such a great idea for Pak.

I also agree but this is the only way they will sign.

 

[schoolboy]

Afghan claims of coercion are a lie

Well - do read that Commons paper - it's written with full access to UK National Archive access and draws on plenty of colonial-era documentation to support what I posted - that the line was never intended to be an international border as we understand it today and that it was practically forced on them by the British, fresh from their victory in the Second Afghan War. In fact the signatory from the Afghan side - Amir Abdur Rahman Khan - was invited by Lord Lytton (viceroy) to come back from exile and take over the political leadership in Afghanistan so his strength to resist was minimal. Like many of the rulers of the princely states who were little more than British dependents Rahman Khan was accorded a bunch of ceremonial British honours, given a GCSI, gun salute in a bid to keep him mollified. This arrangement suited the British nicely as annexation of Afghanistan would draw a sharp response from Tsarist Russia.

 

[Path-Finder]

I am speculating some thing more bigger let me paint a picture.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russ...r-with-afghanistan-putin.480533/#post-9250594
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/who-...ery-force-in-afghanistan.480458/#post-9249909

Just go through the threads and imagine what is happening. Any how too early for every thing but India has less chance now.


I also agree but this is the only way they will sign.

ahhhh.........................................................

عقل مند کے لیے اشارہ کافی ہے

The great game of the 19th century will be dwarfed by this new great game it will have old Russia and Britain, But the new players will make this even more frightening!

 

[BHarwana]

The great game of the 19th century will be dwarfed by this new great game it will have old Russia and Britain, But the new players will make this even more frightening!

LOL I was taking you for granted but you are a visionary. All good will come to those who wait.

 

[Path-Finder]

LOL I was taking you for granted but you are a visionary. All good will come to those who wait.

hmmn......... could it be that I have absolved the Muffakry & Darwaishy of our Hazrat? @django

 

[django]

Pakistan thrice tried to formalize Durand Line: Taliban official

During the regime of Taliban, Islamabad tried to make the over 2,000-kilometre Durand Line a permanent border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a former diplomat of Taliban reveals.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif who was ambassador of Taliban to Islamabad says the country tried three times to formalize the border but it repeatedly received a negative response.

According to Mullah Zaif, first time Pakistan urged Taliban to accept the border when Mullah Abdul Raziq appointed as the interior minister, second time the regime was forced during the visit of Pakistan’s interior minister Moinuddin Haider to Kabul who also travelled to Kandahar for the same purpose.

Mullah Zaif says the demand was made for the third time during the presidency of General Parwiz Musharaf.

The line was drawn in 1893 as a temporarily border between Afghanistan and the British India based on an agreement.

When India partitioned in 1947 and Pakistan created, the Durand Line became a border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The line gives some of Afghanistan’s land to Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces.

But the 1893 agreement which was for 100 years has been expired.

Pakistan which does not agree to return Afghanistan’s land even tried during the Presidency of Hamid Karzai to give the border a permanent status but it again received a negative response.

Most of the issues between the two countries are believed to be the result of this line.

Source :The Nation

 

[BHarwana]

hmmn......... could it be that I have absolved the Muffakry & Darwaishy of our Hazrat? @django

My work was to inform.

hmmn......... could it be that I have absolved the Muffakry & Darwaishy of our Hazrat? @django

Must read this this is the latest news so that you can see a broader picture just happened few hours ago.
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-drone-afghanistan/3741499.html