Afghanistani ties with India

[annie_359]

Salaam all

I'm too lazy to Google anything at the moment coz I don't trust a lot of sources but thought I may get some interesting views from some of you Islamicans

Can anyone tell me their perspectives/analysis of the political relationship/friendship between Afghanistan and India as opposed to Pakistan?

I ask this because I have read on some sites that Afghanistan has strong ties with India and I found this surprising considering Pakistan is it's neghbours and as far as I'm aware there haven't been any wars between the two and above all BOTH ARE MUSLIM. But then, I assume the Muslim-factor could be a reason for their competitiveness (I am assuming there is competitiveness to be the better Muslim country?).

1. I also heard that the Peshawar region has been fought over by Afghanistan and Pakistan for years, so has this driven a big wedge between the two countries?

2. Does Pakistan feel betrayed by this apparent Afghan preference for India seeing as Pakistan and India are *arch enemies*?

3. Are Afghanistan and Pakistan competitive? If so, how?

4. Who took on more Afghanistani political asylum seekers, India or Pakistan? and has there been public acknowledgment/appreciation from Afghanistan on this issue?

5. That's all I can think of for now.

Keep it clean, people, no nastiness or nationalism allowed.. I want emotion-free stats!

Annie

[zeyneddine]

Agreement
between
His Highness Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, G.C.E.I
Amir of Afghanistan and its Dependencies, on the one part,
and
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.,
Foreign Secretary to the Government of India,
representing the Government of India, on the other part

Whereas certain questions have arisen regarding the frontier of Afghanistan on the side of India, and whereas both His Highness the Amir and the Government of India are desirous of settling these questions by a friendly understanding, and of fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence, so that for the future there may be no difference of opinion on the subject between the allied Governments, it is hereby agree as follows:

1. The eastern and southern frontier of High Highness’s dominions, from Wakhan to the Persian border, shall follow the line shown in the map attached to this agreement.

2. The British Government of India will at no time exercise interference in the territories lying beyond this line on the side of Afghanistan, and His Highness the Amir will at no time exercise interference in the territories lying beyond this line on the side of India.

3. The British Government thus agrees to His Highness the Amir retaining Asmar and the valley above it, as far as Chanak. His Highness agrees on the other hand that he will at no time exercise interference in Swat, Bajaur or Chitral, including the Arnawai or Bashgal valley. The British Government also agrees to leave to His Highness the Birmal tract as shown in the detailed map already given to High Highness, who relinquishes his claim to the rest of the Waziri country and Dawar. His Highness also relinquishes his claim to Chageh [now, Chagai. Ed.].

4. The frontier line will hereafter be laid down in detail and demarcated, wherever this may be practicable and desirable, by Joint British and Afghan Commissioners, whose object will be to arrive by mutual understanding at a boundary which shall adhere with the greatest possible exactness to the line shown in the map attached to this agreement, having due regard to the existing local rights of villages adjoining the frontier.

5. With reference to the question of Chaman, the Amir withdraws his objection to the new British Cantonment and concedes to the British Government the rights purchased by him in the Sirkai-Tilerai water. At this part of the frontier, the line will be drawn as follows:

From the crest of Khwaja Amran range near the Pasha Kotal, which remains in British territory, the line will run in such a direction as to leave Murgha Chaman and the Sharobo spring to Afghanistan, and to pass half way between the New Chaman Fort and the Afghan outpost known locally as Lashkar Dand. The line will then pass half way between the railway station and the hill known as the Mian Baldak, and, turning southwards, will rejoin the Khwaja Arman range, leaving the Gwasha Post in British territory, and the road to Shorawak to the west and south of Gwasha in Afghanistan. The British Government will not exercise any interference within half a mile of the road.

6. The above articles of agreement are regarded by the government of India and His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan as a full and satisfactory settlement of all the principal differences of opinion which have arisen between them in regard to the frontier; and both the Government of India and His Highness the Amir undertake that any differences of detail, such as those which will have to be considered hereafter by the officers appointed to demarcate the boundary line, shall be settled in a friendly spirit, so as to remove for the future as far as possible all causes of doubt and misunderstanding between the two Governments.

7. Being fully satisfied of His Highness’s good-will to the British Government, and wishing to see Afghanistan independent and strong, the Government of India will raise no objection to the purchase and import by His Highness of munitions of war, and they will themselves grant him some help in this respect. Further, in order to mark their sense of the friendly spirit in which High Highness the Amir has entered into these negotiations, the Government of India undertake to increase by the sum of six lakhs of rupees a year the subsidy of twelve lakhs now granted to His Highness.

(Signed) H. M. Durand

(Signed) Amir Abdul Rahman Khan

Kabu, the 12th November 1893

Note: Original agreement is available in the national archive of Pakistan. This report has been produced from the copy available at the Area Study Centre, Peshawar University.

Published with permission.

One Lakh = 100000

[Aryan_]

annie_359 said

Salaam all

I'm too lazy to Google anything at the moment coz I don't trust a lot of sources but thought I may get some interesting views from some of you Islamicans

Can anyone tell me their perspectives/analysis of the political relationship/friendship between Afghanistan and India as opposed to Pakistan?

I ask this because I have read on some sites that Afghanistan has strong ties with India and I found this surprising considering Pakistan is it's neghbours and as far as I'm aware there haven't been any wars between the two and above all BOTH ARE MUSLIM. But then, I assume the Muslim-factor could be a reason for their competitiveness (I am assuming there is competitiveness to be the better Muslim country?).

1. I also heard that the Peshawar region has been fought over by Afghanistan and Pakistan for years, so has this driven a big wedge between the two countries?


2. Does Pakistan feel betrayed by this apparent Afghan preference for India seeing as Pakistan and India are *arch enemies*?

3. Are Afghanistan and Pakistan competitive? If so, how?

4. Who took on more Afghanistani political asylum seekers, India or Pakistan? and has there been public acknowledgment/appreciation from Afghanistan on this issue?

5. That's all I can think of for now.

Keep it clean, people, no nastiness or nationalism allowed.. I want emotion-free stats!

Annie

You don't know the answers to this already?

A portion of Kashmir known as the Wakhan Salient was given to Afghanistan illegally by the British during the Great Game.

The Durrand line is being contested today by the Afghan state but not officially by Pakistan.

As for the dotheads:
[Afghanistan: Kabul's India Ties Worry Pakistan] - [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2008]