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On one hand, Trump kept threatening Iran and on the other hand, he started an open war between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistani Air Force is carrying out air strikes in Afghanistan and Afghan Air Force is carrying out air strikes in Pakistan till Islamabad. While Afghanistan is claiming to have killed 55 people of Pakistan, Pakistan has already claimed to have killed 150 people of Afghanistan. The fight that started between the Pakistani Army and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has now reached the air forces of both the countries and both the countries have declared open war, but the question is why. After all, what is the real reason for the ongoing war between Pakistan and Afghanistan? After all, what does Pakistan want from Afghanistan and what does Afghanistan want from Pakistan? Even if a country like Türkiye or Qatar mediates between the two, then what should be the matter between the two, on which they are fighting a war.
In fact, small and big clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan had started taking place ever since the Taliban had captured Afghanistan because as soon as the Taliban took over Afghanistan, those terrorist organizations, which were hiding in Pakistan after the weakening of the Taliban in Afghanistan, were once again encouraged. The Taliban terrorists who had fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan made their base in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, which were tribal areas. Fata i.e. Federally Administered Tribal Area occupied by Pakistan was the biggest base of these terrorist organizations. These terrorists had formed their organizations under different names, but under pressure from America, Pakistan started taking strict action against these terrorists and then in 2007, Pakistani Army conducted a regular military operation in FATA, the result of which was that a total of 13 terrorist organizations came together and together they formed a new organization named Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan i.e. TTP, whose leader was Baitullah, a terrorist living in Waziristan province of Pakistan. Mehsud. The form of this new organization formed in Pakistan was Deobandi-Wahhabi, which had five main demands.
What are the demands of TTP in Pakistan?
The first demand is that Sharia should be implemented in entire Pakistan. The second demand is that women’s education should be completely banned in Pakistan and the third demand is that the Constitution of Pakistan should be dissolved and the country should be run according to Shariat. The fourth demand is that American forces be pulled out of Afghanistan and the fifth demand is that Pakistani troops be pulled out of FATA i.e. Federally Administered Tribal Area. But the then Pakistan government did not listen to a single word of this terrorist organization. On August 25, 2008, the Government of Pakistan declared Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan a banned organization.
Taliban released TTP terrorists from jail
Since then this organization continued to clash with the Pakistan Army. After Noor Wali Mehsud took command in 2018, TTP even expressed its intention to take over the entire Pakistan. On August 15, 2021, when the Taliban established its rule over Afghanistan, the Taliban government released all the TTP terrorists lodged in the jails of Afghanistan. Then on November 28, 2022, TTP security chief Mufti Mujahim announced that now TTP will carry out attacks across Pakistan. And this is what happened. TTP’s attacks on Pakistan increased. The government of Pakistan kept blaming TTP as well as Taliban ruled Afghanistan for these attacks and then the matter got so bad that after leaving TTP, this matter reached the military and then air force of both the countries. And now both are embroiled in war.
Is the war between Pakistan and Afghanistan the contribution of the British?
But even if there is no TTP or there is no Taliban in Afghanistan, then Afghanistan and Pakistan have enough reasons to fight each other, one of which is the contribution of the British and this is also the biggest reason. That is the border line drawn between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is called Durand Line. On August 14, 1947, when Pakistan became a new country by dividing India on the basis of religion, it inherited this border line with Afghanistan.
What was the agreement between the British and Afghans?
One end of this 2670 km long border line meets China and the other meets Iran, whose history is about 130 years old. India was then ruled by the British. After many long battles, an agreement was reached between British India and Afghanistan on November 12, 1893, in which the boundaries of the two countries were determined. Officials from both sides sat in Parachinar city near Khost province of Afghanistan and a line was drawn on the map between the two countries. This line is called Durand Line. Through this line, a new province, North West Frontier Province, was created, which is generally called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This part came to British India. Apart from this, FATA i.e. Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Frontier Regions also came to British India, while Nuristan and Wakhan went to Afghanistan.
An agreement was also reached in Rawalpindi
Then on 8 August 1919, another agreement was reached in Rawalpindi between the British Empire and Afghanistan, in which it was decided that the British Empire would recognize Afghanistan as an independent country, while Afghanistan would consider the Durand Line as the international boundary line. After August 14-15, 1947, the situation changed again. India became independent and Pakistan became a new country. Now with independence, Pakistan inherited the Durand Line, which separated Pakistan from Afghanistan. During this period, the Pashtun people, who lived on the border with Afghanistan, faced the most difficulties. The problem with them was that at the time of drawing the Durand Line, their families were so divided that some people went to Afghanistan and some remained in Pakistan. There were continuous differences between the two countries regarding this. Meanwhile, firing was done from Afghanistan near the Durand Line. The newly formed Pakistan responded to this firing by sending the Air Force and the Pakistani Air Force carried out an air attack on a village in Afghanistan near the Durand Line. After this attack on July 26, 1949, Afghanistan announced that it does not recognize the Durand Line.
The British decided the border between the two countries
But then Britain intervened. In June 1950, Britain made it clear that the border line between Pakistan and Afghanistan would be the Durand Line. But this issue could never be resolved. Pakistan and Afghanistan often clashed on this issue. Sometimes there was friendship and sometimes enmity. There was friendship in the name of Islam and there was a rift in this friendship in the name of border line. The enmity deepened with the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan in 1996, because the Taliban opposed the Durand Line and said that there was no need for any border line between the two Islamic countries. But then America drove the Taliban from Afghanistan and peace came on the Durand Line. Now that Taliban is again in Afghanistan, there does not seem to be any hope of peace between the two at the moment.
When will the Afghan-Pak war end?
Let’s see how far this war stretches. Pakistan was already devoting its energy to fighting the Baloch Liberation Army in Balochistan; on top of that, it was also fighting the TTP. But now the fight is not with any terrorist organization, but with the army of a country and a decisive attack can turn this war in any direction. Russia is saying that both the countries should talk. Volker Turk, head of human rights issues of the United Nations, is saying that both the countries should talk at the political level. Türkiye and Qatar can also try to reach an agreement between the two. But the way Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has called it an open war and Taliban government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has also talked about preparations for a major attack on Pakistan, it does not seem that this war will end soon.