Frontline Pakistan : The Struggle With Militant Islam - Arz-e-Pak
Frontline Pakistan : The Struggle With Militant Islam - Arz-e-Pak
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10 <strong>Frontline</strong> <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong><br />
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<strong>The</strong> Durand line is a controversial 2,640-kilometre (1,610 miles) border<br />
between Afghanistan and <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>. Named after Sir Mortimer Durand,<br />
Foreign Secretary in the British Indian government, the border was<br />
demarcated after an agreement between the representatives of Afghan<br />
government and the British Empire in 1893. <strong>The</strong> border was intentionally<br />
drawn to cut through those tribes that the British feared. In 1947,<br />
Afghanistan’s Loya jirga (grand assembly) declared the agreement<br />
invalid, and since then the issue has remained a major cause of tension<br />
between the two countries. Today the line is often referred as one ‘drawn<br />
on water’, symbolizing the porous nature of the border.<br />
Rizwan Hussain, <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong> and the Emergence of <strong>Islam</strong>ic Militancy in<br />
Afghanistan (London: Ashgate Publishing), p. 53.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pashtun nationalists led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan demanded<br />
political autonomy for <strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>’s North West Frontier Province and its<br />
renaming as ‘Pashtunistan’. <strong>The</strong> movement, backed by Afghanistan,<br />
was very strong in the 1950s and 1960s, but petered out after the Soviet<br />
invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan.<br />
See Chapter Ten.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> new frontier’, Newsline, April 2004.<br />
Ibid.<br />
Ibid.<br />
Ibid.<br />
Ibid.<br />
In <strong>The</strong> Times.<br />
Musharraf’s interview with CNN.<br />
Lawrence Wright, ‘<strong>The</strong> man behind bin Laden’, New Yorker, 16 September<br />
2002.<br />
Ibid.<br />
Ibid,<br />
Ibid.<br />
‘All quiet on the north western front’, Newsline, May 2004.<br />
Ibid.<br />
‘Night raid kills Nek and four other militants’, Daily Dawn, 19 June 2004.<br />
‘Troubled frontier’, Newsline, July 2004.<br />
‘<strong>Militant</strong>s were paid to repay al Qaeda debt’, Daily Dawn, 9 February<br />
2005.<br />
ChaPter nine<br />
‘Nuclear experts may have links with al Qaeda’, New York Times, 9<br />
December 2001.<br />
‘<strong><strong>Pak</strong>istan</strong>i atom experts held amid fears of leaked secrets’, New York<br />
Times, 1 November 2001.