Posts Tagged ‘Pashtunistan’
Open Letter from Prominent Afghans to Obama: Discrimination Against Pashtuns
Dawat Independent Media Centre | 1 July 2010 To: Mr. Obama, President, United States ofAmerica From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. Burhani This letter was sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Ranking Member Richard Lugar, [...]
Embracing “Afpakistan”
Express Tribune | By Arshad Zaman | 1 July 2010 The expression “Af-Pak” that has gained currency despite belated efforts by the U.S. government to suppress it, has not been received well in Pakistan. This reflects probably a perceived slight in being de-linked from India (not that “Indo-Pak” was much liked), and linked to a [...]
The Baloch Reality
The News | By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi | 23 June 2010 Balochistan, Mea Culpa! We are to blame. We are so sorry. We agree with your every complaint. We intend to make amends. Please take note of our awards, packages, amendments and initiatives. Won't you at least be appreciative and put your faith in our good intentions? Can't you see, if not [...]
The New Narrative: All Pashtuns are Taliban, all Talibans are Al Qaeda, so Let’s Deal with them like we did with the Native Americans
For more than two centuries, the United States military has been called upon to defeat insurgencies like ... , the Native Americans on the western plains of the United States, ... — U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual The Independent | By Patrick Cockburn | 6 December 2009 US surge will only prolong Afghan war Analysis: Just as in [...]
Zardari: Pakistan’s N.W.F.P. Province to be Renamed “Pakhtunistan”
In an interview with Kamran Shahid on his programme, Frontline, on Express TV, when in answer to a question President Asif Ali Zardari referred to the North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) of Pakistan as Pakhtunkhwa, the interviewer asked him if this meant that we could expect the NWFP to be renamed as Pakhtunistan? At 11:10 pm on 27 [...]
American Commandos Unleashing Terror in “Pashtunistan” from Across the Afghan Border
Antiwar.com | By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Satirist and entertainer Harry Shearer makes a good point today on HuffingtonPost.com: When the Fox network staged a special Veterans’ Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one interesting fact about Bagram: It’s the site [...]
Pashtunistan: Pepe Escobar on the Balkanisation of Pakistan
The post with which this blog started (On the day after, 13 April 2009) and several subsequent posts have suggested that a US-Israel-India axis has been working to balkanise militarily consequential Muslim states, and have drawn attention to similarities with Kampuchea-Vietnam, and the secession of East Pakistan (see How RAW Created Bangladesh, 23 [...]
B. Raman’s Open Letter to Sonia Gandhi on Balochistan
”The struggle for an independent Balochistan is part of the unfinished agenda of the Partition." While a failure of statesmanship by the civil and military bureaucracy that formally assumed power in 1958 in Pakistan provided the opportunity, the Indians were not remiss in seizing it. India's role in the secession of East Pakistan, [...]
Create Pashtunistan — Article in 2008 US Military Intelligence Journal
Based on a partially perceptive analysis -- that "...had we looked deeper, we might have found that the root causes behind the enduring and resilient nature of the Taliban have very little to do with religion, and much to do with an ancient ethnic struggle..." -- an article, “Secessionist Jihad: The Taliban’s Struggle for Pashtunistan,” by [...]
