Call for Partition: Given the Obama administration’s failed counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy for Afghanistan, former U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwell, as one of an increasing number of administration officials, are advocating for a partition of the country
As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat
The Durand Line refers to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is poorly marked and approximately 2,640 kilometers (1,610 miles) long. It was established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between the Government of colonial British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence
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