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DURAND LINE

PAKISTAN & AFGHANISTAN

ANOTHER GEO-POLITICAL PROBLEM

SARASIJ MAJUMDER

Do you see this brownish area between Pakistan and Afghanistan? This brown area is spread across both Pakistan and Afghanistan. This area is of the Pashtuns. Most of the Pashtun people live in this area. And the Durand Line is passing through this brown area.

The Durand Line is Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) boundary. It is the consequence of an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a British Indian government secretary, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghanistan’s the then Emir, or ruler. On November 12, 1893, in Kabul, Afghanistan, the agreement was signed.

The Durand Line has been the formal border between the two countries for almost a century, yet it has caused controversy today among the people who live there.

The British India thought that Tsarist Russia can any day take over Afghanistan. This line was to stop Russia at Afghanistan. Most historians agree that the border was set to keep vital areas like the Khyber Pass on the British Empire’s side. Experts say Durand had insufficient knowledge of the region’s ethnicity and topography, and hence divided traditional Pashtun tribal territories in error.

Pakistan was still a part of India when the Durand Line was established in 1893. India was in turn controlled by the United Kingdom.  QUEEN of  The United Kingdom ruled India from 1857 until India’s independence in 1947. Pakistan also became a nation in 1947.

Today Afghanistan does not accept this Durand Line. But Pakistan accepts this Durand Line. Pakistan believes that this Durand Line is the real border but Taliban believes that this is not the real border. This means that Taliban considers Quetta and Peshawar of Pakistan belongs to AFGHANISTAN.

This is the root of the controversy.

This dispute between two MUSLIM  countries is also a gift from the British.

At present, the situation is such that the Taliban wants to capture Quetta and Peshawar of Pakistan as well, that is why these two countries kept fighting with each other since Taliban took control of Afghanistan.  It was not a war. Small fights kept going on. There is  peace for a few months in between fights.

Tension has increased on the Durand Line ever since the Taliban took over Kabul. As long as the USA was in Afghanistan, there was FORCED peace between Afghanistan and Pakistan. As soon as the USA left Afghanistan, the border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan got reignited.

BRITISHERS HAS MESSED UP OUR REGION IN ABOUT 200 YEARS THEY RULED THE REGION.

REFERENCE: 

1.0 https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/durand-line-friction-point-between-afghanistan-pakistan-7485631/

2.0 https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/what-is-durand-line/

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