History of Pak-Afghan Relationship from 1947 till 1979 (Something that neither PPP,PTM,ANP nor PMAP would like to speak about)

[A.G.Uddin]

When we talk about Pak-Afghan relations, many of our liberal friends often pretend as if history of Pakistan and Afghanistan starts from 1979 when Pakistan armed the Mujahideen to overthrow the Russian puppet.

Why do we ignore the Pak-Afghan history from 1947-1979? The long proxy war of 26 years perpetrated by Afghanistan in the name of Pashtunistan (1947-73). Either we are unbeknownst of it or we do it intentionally which is intellectual dishonesty.
Now let me explicate you with what actions did the Kabul regime take during this time.
1. September 1947: Afghanistan became the ONLY country to vote against Pakistan’s membership of United Nations. Keep in mind how fragile the gov of Pakistan was at that moment while considering this extremely hostile beginning by Afghanistan.
2. September 1947: Pashtunistan flag was raised alongside Afghan national flag in Kabul. Afg started arming and funding proxies in the border areas (Afridi Sarishtas & Ipi Faqir) for the ‘Liberation of Pashtunistan’. This led to skirmishes between Pak forces and Afghan proxies.

3. June 1949: While pursuing miscreants who attacked Pakistani border posts from Afghanistan, a PAF warplane inadvertently bombed the Afghan village of Moghulgai on the Waziristan border.
4. July 1949: A Loya Jirga held by Afghan govt at Kabul unilaterally denounced all treaties related to Pak-Afghan international border and announced full support for Pashtunistan. 31st August was declared as ‘Pashtunistan Day’ which was regularly commemorated by Afghan Govt every year.

5. 1948-1949: Afghan-supported proxies announced the formation of ‘Pashtunistan’ in Tirah (Khyber) and Razmak (Waziristan), with Ipi Faqir as President.
6. 1950: Afghan airforce planes dropped leaflets in support of Pashtunistan, inside Pakistan’s tribal areas.

7. Sep-Oct 1950: Afghan army with artillery support attacked Dobandi area of Balochistan and occupied a strategic pass with the aim to cut off Chaman-Quetta Railway link. Pakistan army send reinforcements to the area and retook the pass after a week’s fighting.

8. 1950-51: Three Afghan-led Lashkars attacked Pakistani areas across Durand Line in Khyber Agency.

Afghanistan declared the miscreants as ‘Freedom Fighters’ and used its official Radio and Press for non-stop Pashtunistan propaganda.

9. Pakistan responded by using ‘go slow’ approach on Afghanistan’s trade transit routes.
10. 16 October 1951: Pakistani PM Liaquat Ali Khan was shot dead in Rawalpindi by an Afghan national Said Akbar Babrak. Afghanistan’s govt disowned his act.
Afghanistan’s material+propaganda support for Pashtunistan miscreants continued unabated throughout the 1950s.

11. 30 March 1955: Pakistan’s diplomatic missions in Kabul, Qandahar, Jalalabad were attacked at the behest of Afghan govt and Pashtunistan flag was hoisted on the chancery of Pakistan Embassy in Kabul.
12. September 1959: Afghan King Zahir Shah and PM Sardar Daud reaffirmed their support for Pashtunistan.

13. September 1960: Afghan army troops and militias attacked Bajaur. The attack was repulsed by Bajauri tribesmen with help of SSG forces from Cherat. An account of the battle is shown in the declassified US Embassy document in the reply secion of my comment.

14. March 1961: Afghanistan supplied arms and ammunition to proxies led by Pacha Gul in Bajaur’s Batmalai area for an uprising. The ammunition dump was destroyed by PAF aerial bombing.

15. May 1961: Thousands of Afghan troops disguised as militias attacked Bajaur, Jandul and Khyber. The attacks were repulsed by tribesmen with support of Frontier Corps and aerial bombing by PAF warplanes. President Ayub warned the Afghan side against unprovoked escalations.

16. 6 September 1961: Diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan were cut off after Pakistan decided to restrict Afghan transit trade due to its continuous support for Pashtunistan proxies.

17. The relations were resumed two years later, in 1963, when Sardar Doud (the main engine behind Pashtunistan) resigned as PM.
18. September 1964: Afghan Loya Jirga again reiterated support for Pashtunistan (though much mildly than in past).

19. 1964-1972: Relative calm in relations due to Afghanistan’s domestic power struggle issues and democracy experiments. The Pashtunistan issue went on backburner and Pak-Afghan relations normalized to such extent that Afghanistan remained neutral in 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars.

20. 1972-73: Afghanistan restarted support for Pashtunistan; intensified Radio Kabul propaganda and sheltered NAP activists led by Ajmal Khattak.
21. July 1973: Sardar Doud led a bloodless military coup to overthrow King Zahir Shah and declared himself President. One of the reasons he quoted for the coup was Zahir Shah’s supposedly soft approach on Pashtunistan.

22. Afghan official gazette published the Pashtunistan flag and also ran inflammatory reports about terrorist activities of Pashtunistan miscreants. Radio Kabul’s propaganda reached a peak.

23. 1973: In response to renewed Pashtunistan focus by Afghanistan, Pakistani PM Z.A.Bhutto authorized a tit-for-tat response to Afghanistan. IGFC Naseerullah Babar was tasked to train dissident Afghans for proxy purposes inside Afghanistan.
24. This was Pakistan’s first act to use proxies against Afghanistan, after 26 year long proxy war perpetrated by Afghanistan in the name of Pashtunistan (1947-73).

25. Feb 1974: Afghan animosity to Pakistan was so great that Afghan President Doud didn’t participate in the ‘OIC Leaders Summit’ held in Lahore.
26. Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, the Afghan delegate at the summit, tried to raise
Pashtunistan issue on this Unity forum too but got snubbed as no Muslim country’s leader paid any heed.

27. 1973-78: Soon after Doud assumed power, Afghan govt started supporting the Baloch insurgents fighting against Pakistan. Afghanistan sheltered thousands of Marri tribesmen and gave them training+weapons for militant activities inside Pakistan.
28. 1973-78: Afghan govt under Doud continued to support the Pashtunistan proxies. NAP’s militant wing ‘Pakhtun Zalmay’ was funded / trained / armed by Kabul for terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

29. These facts have been confirmed by Jumma Khan Sufi, a close aide of Ajmal Khattak, in his memoirs ‘Faraib e Na Tamam’. Sufi remained in exile for 20 years in Afghanistan and was involved in the Afghan proxy activities in Pakistan.

30. 1973-onwards: Not only was Afghanistan supporting NAP terrorism in Pakistan itself, it also became a hub for Indian interference into Pakistan via Pashtunistan and Balochistan proxies.
31. 1973-onwards: Not only was Afghanistan supporting NAP terrorism in Pakistan itself, it also became a hub for Indian interference into Pakistan via Pashtunistan and Balochistan proxies.

32. NAP leaders were paid monthly stipends and other funds by Indian govt as admitted by Jumma Khan Sufi in his memoirs.

33. February 1975: Hayat Khan Sherpao, Senior PPP minister and ex-Governor NWFP, was killed in a bomb blast. The assassination was carried out by NAP militant wing operating out of Afghanistan (as confirmed by Jumma Khan Sufi some three decades later).

34. April 1978: Afghan President Doud and his whole family were massacred in the Soviet-sponsored ‘Saur Revolution’. The new pro-Communist regime announced all-out support for Pashtunistan.

35. December 1979: Soviet secret service KGB assassinated Afghanistan’s President Hafizullah Amin and nearly 100,000 Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal was installed as President by Soviets who pledged to free the ‘holy land of Pashtunistan’ (from Pakistan).

Copied from Facebook Page of Pakistan Pseudo Liberals :

https://www.facebook.com/DesiLiberals/posts/1019316908267881

 

[Eyeaan]

During ZA Bhutto's government
Apart from insurgency in Baluchistan, there were about 4000 acts of terrorism acts in other regions with the support of Afghan government - bombing is Lahore - including Wapda house and Anarkali targeting civilian, bombings on Karachi targeting common people like killing in Lee market.
there were Insurgencies in Shabqadar and Bajor by NAP warlords trained in Afghanistan,
And read the first speech of President Trahki after Sour revolution when he proclaimed that among the main goals of revolution was to reach the ocean - threatening expansion through NWFP and Baluchistan.
Whatever Bhutto or the next government did that was a response to consistent threats and acts of terrorism on pak soil. Bhutto, being a thorough nationalist, fully supported Pak efforts in Afghanistan (unlike today's fake liberals who mislead by repeating western media.) US was far away but Pak, China, Iran and Arabs were directly threatened by USSR expansion in view of her history; and these countries responded to the threat long before Russian armies entered Kabul or US entered the conflict. Shola Javed; a pro-china communist group in Afghanistan, was the first who took arms against the Russian expansion.

 

[Galaxy]

No daught they did lot of mischief in Pakistan but what choice do we have. One side India the other side the three musketeers.

 

[Awan S]

People of Afghanistan hates Pakistanis only due to proxy wars by Pakistani army in Afghanistan. Whenever famous generalists toured Afghanistan they found everyone angry on Pakistan. Afghan people thinks that Pakistan always sold Afghan cause in two wars and got money both time from U.S.A. They think that if Pakistan were not involved they would have been in better situation. Although it is no completely true but of course there is some truth behind that. Dictators were the rulers during that time and most benefit was gain by army & agencies. Jihadis which were created by Pakistan caused bloodshed for decades after first Afghan war in both Afghanistan & Pakistan. Pakistani created Jihadis who first ruined Afghanistan after first Afghan war and later on these Jihadis (later named Taliban) caused second war and huge blood shed in both countries.

 

[Eyeaan]

People of Afghanistan hates Pakistanis only due to proxy wars by Pakistani army in Afghanistan. Whenever famous generalists toured Afghanistan they found everyone angry on Pakistan. Afghan people thinks that Pakistan always sold Afghan cause in two wars and got money both time from U.S.A. They think that if Pakistan were not involved they would have been in better situation. Although it is no completely true but of course there is some truth behind that. Dictators were the rulers during that time and most benefit was gain by army & agencies. Jihadis which were created by Pakistan caused bloodshed for decades after first Afghan war in both Afghanistan & Pakistan. Pakistani created Jihadis who first ruined Afghanistan after first Afghan war and later on these Jihadis (later named Taliban) caused second war and huge blood shed in both countries.

Holy lord! Why not to stick to the topic for a change. If you have an opinion or insight into Pak-afghan or India -afghan relation prior to 1979, please share - that's a huge topic to understand the dynamics of the region.

But you act like a typical self-hating Pakistani or self-hating Muslim -- a commodity that is very popular in certain powerful quarters. You spew propaganda on the name of 'street opinion' but of the current elite of Afghan, just to avoid the topic.
I'm no fan of generals in any manner but the narrative of Afghan elite ( and that fed to masses) is bullshit - factually, historically and in view of ideological/social realities of afghan society. Often Groups and nations develops bubbles to avoid the hard realities and their criminality. Newly-reformed - ex-communists and funded/paid-off elite have thee same dilemma. 4 million (?) dead afghans and 7 million in exile - villages and families annihilated by the USSR forces - all supported by a tiny group of Afghan nation -- on the name of social experiments in a tribal society --and whose words you love and cherish much. (US has been far far humane in her war effort for afghan occupation but still war and slavery is hell.) Sooner or later this elite class and slave-state agents will be held responsible for their acts and ideas but perhaps that would take a few decades as still Afghanistan is a slave, occupies country and one cannot even imagine truth from a subjugated agents and tail-less ex-communists.

 

[Awan S]

Holy lord! Why not to stick to the topic for a change. If you have an opinion or insight into Pak-afghan or India -afghan relation prior to 1979, please share - that's a huge topic to understand the dynamics of the region.

But you act like a typical self-hating Pakistani or self-hating Muslim -- a commodity that is very popular in certain powerful quarters. You spew propaganda on the name of 'street opinion' but of the current elite of Afghan, just to avoid the topic.
I'm no fan of generals in any manner but the narrative of Afghan elite ( and that fed to masses) is bullshit - factually, historically and in view of ideological/social realities of afghan society. Often Groups and nations develops bubbles to avoid the hard realities and their criminality. Newly-reformed - ex-communists and funded/paid-off elite have thee same dilemma. 4 million dead afghans and 7 million in exile - villages and families annihilated by the USSR forces - all supported by a tiny group of Afghan nation -- on the name of social experiments in a tribal society --and whose words you love and cherish much. (US has been far far humane in her war effort for afghan occupation but still war and slavery is hell.) Sooner or later this elite class and slave-state agents will be held responsible for their acts and ideas but perhaps that would take a few decades as still Afghanistan is a slave, occupies country and one cannot even imagine truth from a subjugated agents and tail-less ex-communists.

I agree with you that I am little out of topic but reason is very obvious. Pak Afghan relations is always a hot topic whenever we will talk about Afghanistan. I have given Afghan version of understanding against Pakistan. In past, only tajik & Hazara (non-Pakhtuns) were against Pakistan but last few years a lot of Pakhtoon people have joined them. You can disagree with them but would you like someone else to interfere with your country's internal matters. Afghanistan is a unique country on earth and they want their problems to be resolved by themselves. Afghanistan is a law & order problem for centuries but was not it better for us to just keep focus on our borders and would have never crossed the border. Do you think for a poor country like Pakistan, it was justified to involve in two wars? Don't you think 50,000 people's blood is not linked to our interference in Afghanistan ? Don't you think Pakistan would have been a different country had we not involved in two wars in Afghanistan? I am sure there are more questions than answers on this topic.

 

[Citizen X]

Fuck Afghanistan and afghanis. been saying it for some time now. Deport all these treacherous bastards and seal the borders.