21st of June is the Independence day of Pashtun and Baluchis in the occupied territory of Afghanistan ceded to the British Idea in 19th century currently under Pakistan.Our forefathers were far more prudent and patriotic than us. Afghan survival and prosperity can only be assured through autonomous control of its own trade routes and a seaport of its own. That is the only way to achieve and maintain a rapidly growing and sustainable economy for Afghanistan. The current moribund economy of Afghanistan has always been and will always be the real driver of instability and the root cause of war in Afghanistan. Let’s revive their stance and traditions and seek and fight for accessibility to the sea as our dire straight and vital necessity. On the 21 June 1947, the Afghan prime minister Shahmahmud Khan, declared:” If an independent Pashtunistan can not be set up, the frontier province should join Afghanistan. Our neighbour will realize that our country with its population and trade needs an outlet to the sea.” This denunciation of the Durand line, implicit in the declaration of the Afghan prime minister, was fundamental to the affirmation of Afghan irredentism, whose territorial claims extended up to the Indian Ocean. In 1947, King Zahir shah sent a special envoy to Karachi to meet Jinnah. On his return to Kabul, he affirmed: 1) that the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan would be made into ‘sovereign’, 2) that Pakistan would give Afghanistan access to the sea, either by creating an Afghan corridor in West Baluchistan, or through the grant of an ‘Afghan free trade zone’ in Karachi, 3) That Pakistan and Afghanistan would sign a treaty under which each would remain neutral in case the other was attacked (which amounted to an attitude of benevolent neutrality visa –a-vis India). Please refer to a book called Pakistan and the Afghan conflict 1979-1985, the article is in page 4, entitled Pakistan Afghan relation and the Pashtun question by: Frederic Grare Oxford University Press ISBN No: 0-19-579793-0
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:08:59 +0000
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