Pashtuns, do you want a Pashtunistan?

pakistan wont let pashtunistan be, as it will leave Pakistan nothing more then a slither on the map, believe me when i say they will not let it go without a fight, there is only one way a dream of this magnitude can become reality, Afghanistan must play its part in fighting for the land that Pakistan heinously stole and is occupying, the only true Pashtun people who will make this dream come to true are the Taliban, once they force out the invaders (america) inshallah they will, i hope they can bring resolution to this subject

Also basing a nation on DNA similarity, history and culture (loy Afghanistan) to me makes a lot more sense than basing a country solely on religion (pakistan). Once again you try to justify the existence of a country that has accomplished next to nothing in terms of its size and population and one that was founded upon an extremely illogical concept (if Pakistan is Muslim India) then why should Baluchis and Pashtuns (non Indians) have to live in it..

Furthermore a united Pakistan and Afghanistan would make little sense or promise any merit. There would be severe ethnic tensions and a civil war based on ethnic lines would only be a matter of time. It would make more sense for Eastern Pakistan to reunite with India..

Unsurprisingly, I agree with most of what you have said but I believe that you aren't that well versed in the politics of that region (not to worry- most people aren't) to understand that an ethnic people separated by a border pact that expired in the 90's is one of the contributing reasons towards the problems faced by people on both sides of the border.

Education is the key to success and, unfortunately, the Pashtuns have been denied it for most of their history. I am a firm believer in self determination because, naturally, when an ethnic people are in a majority - both in government and population wise (in a corrupt part of the world with no natural order)- they are going to want the best for their people and put their people first. The Pashtuns (and balochis) are an ethnic minority and have been, for too long, oppressed and taken advantage of.

Not many people have been aware of Pakistan's recent military operation in Waziristan (a region that I spent my earliest childhood years in.) The Pakistan government launched an operation that aimed to target North Waziristan exclusively and harshly. More than a million Pashtuns have been displaced from their home because of the operation. My family only returned recently to find their homes almost destroyed and many of their personal belongings lost (not to mention the countless deaths in the same family.) The Taliban were inspired by this same operation to stage their attack on my homeland of Peshawar; they wanted revenge for the innocents killed in that area by the army. Obviously this isn't an excuse for the poor young innocent children killed by those savages but it doesn't make sense for the Pakistani goverment to then respond to the Peshawar attack by increasing the intensity of their operation in Waziristan.

An interesting (and true) comment I read on a Guardian article just recently summed up Pakistan's involvement in supporting the Taliban (other than the claim that they gave refuge to Osama.)
"Pakistan has supported the training, financing, and arming of the Taliban since the Taliban emerged as a fighting force in Afghanistan in late 1995. Their double game of taking US aid to "fight" the Afghanistan Taliban while supporting the insurgency is well known and documented. When you support an insurgency that accounts for 75% of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan, this will come back to bite you eventually"

Obviously it's all well and good pointing the finger and blaming everyone but yourself; the problem is internal as well as external but to go forwards, we need a stable region and educated people, something I personally see as undo able without the people from that region getting their wish - to be united under one nation and managing their own affairs. One only needs to look at the wishes of the neighbouring province in Pakistan of Balochistan (who want virtually the same thing) to understand how fragmented and divided Pakistan is as a country. Balochis complain that their land contributes the most to the country, economically because they are rich in resources, but get's the least back financially. They, like the pashtuns, complain of being alienated and ignored in a country they are meant to call their own, where the culture and language that is put forward isn't their own. I have virtually nothing in common culturally with my punjabi friends (whom I love dearly) but yet their culture is the "face of Pakistan"

Obviously, one can argue that the "notion" on which Pakistan was founded was a country united by religion, not ethnicity, but no matter how beautiful that concept sounds, realistically it is unimplementable and that is evident when we look at that area today. In Waziristan (as well as some in KPK and most in Balochistan) most deny being Pakistani and express an immense hate towards it, which is understandable considering that Pashtuns have always been known historically as ethnic afghans and when the same country they are supposed to belong to has killed them in millions.

We could blame a lot of things, specifically the old British empire's desire for creating problems by drawing random borders wherever they want to, specifically the infestation of the Taliban in that region, specifically ISI's use of proxies in funding the Taliban, specifically Pakistan's recklessness in their war against the Taliban and killing thousands of innocent Pashtuns in the process, we need to do something.

At the end of the day, if the people want the right to self determinate themselves then they should have it and not be stopped. As a Pashtun/Afghan Scot, I want independence for both of my people (albeit for maybe different reasons)

Education is the key, yes, but it's been robbed from the Pashtuns because, in the eyes of the Pakistani goverment, they don't deserve it. Education is a right,yes, but so is being allowed to govern yourself. For the Pashtuns to move forward, they need to have their future in their hands and not someone elses.

Seeing Central Asian Muslims fight each other on TSR (and on the Internet in general) is hilarious.