Subject: The point of the Durand Line<br/>
Date: Jan 19, 2006 @ 13:17<br/>
Author: sdrawkcabdom (&quot;sdrawkcabdom&quot; &lt;sdrawkcab8@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-251789718">I think it&#39;s been asked before, but here&#39;s a question about the Durand <br/>
Line (Pak - Afg).<br/>
Every website/article about this border always says something along the <br/>
lines of &#39;it was drawn so as to delibrately divide the Pashtuns.&#39; <br/>
I just don&#39;t get this. The Pashtuns/Pathans are infamous for their war-<br/>
like nature and fierce loyalty to their culture. Surely this would have <br/>
been obvious to the British, having been given a good thrashing in the <br/>
Aghan Wars and so forth. Couldn&#39;t they see that merely drawing a line <br/>
on a map wouldn&#39;t work, something we can see today? Did they seriously <br/>
think that the old &#39;divide and rule&#39; would work in this instance? Or <br/>
were just terribly naive/stupid?<br/>
can anyone clear this up?</div>