Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The point of the Durand Line<br/>
Date: Jan 19, 2006 @ 15:38<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-850306920">borders are scratched across the hearts of men<br/>
by strangers with a calm judicious pen<br/>
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& in this case it certainly does appear to have worked<br/>
to divide & rule these folks ever since<br/>
<br/>
but of course what the strangers including durand<br/>
thought they were doing by creating afghanistan & its<br/>
borders at that time was to prevent the expanding<br/>
russian sphere of influence from colliding head on<br/>
with the british in south asia<br/>
<br/>
it wasnt about the pashtuns really nor any of the<br/>
other locals<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.d-n-i.net/charts_data/pashtunistan.htm">http://www.d-n-i.net/charts_data/pashtunistan.htm</a><br/>
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indeed border making almost never is about the locals <br/>
& <br/>
it almost never really<br/>
w o r k s<br/>
toward the end of keeping peoples together<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
on the contrary <br/>
<br/>
by & large<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& btw dom this is another admittedly difficult<br/>
distinction for most people to make<br/>
but here at boundarypoint our focus is not actually<br/>
borders per se <br/>
but geopolitical multipointing<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/</a><br/>
which is in itself a difficult topic for most people<br/>
to even understand or acknowledge<br/>
<br/>
& so you may well find that you will get more border<br/>
oriented answers at our borderpoint group <br/>
which was subsequently created with this very border<br/>
orientation & purpose in mind<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/borderpoint/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/borderpoint/</a><br/>
or at the ibru group which was previously created with<br/>
a border orientation & purpose too<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/resources/intboundaries.html">http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/resources/intboundaries.html</a><br/>
both of which we have tried not to duplicate here <br/>
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--- sdrawkcabdom &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sdrawkcab8@...">sdrawkcab8@...</a>&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I think it&#39;s been asked before, but here&#39;s a<br/>
&gt; question about the Durand <br/>
&gt; Line (Pak - Afg).<br/>
&gt; Every website/article about this border always says<br/>
&gt; something along the <br/>
&gt; lines of &#39;it was drawn so as to delibrately divide<br/>
&gt; the Pashtuns.&#39; <br/>
&gt; I just don&#39;t get this. The Pashtuns/Pathans are<br/>
&gt; infamous for their war-<br/>
&gt; like nature and fierce loyalty to their culture.<br/>
&gt; Surely this would have <br/>
&gt; been obvious to the British, having been given a<br/>
&gt; good thrashing in the <br/>
&gt; Aghan Wars and so forth. Couldn&#39;t they see that<br/>
&gt; merely drawing a line <br/>
&gt; on a map wouldn&#39;t work, something we can see today?<br/>
&gt; Did they seriously <br/>
&gt; think that the old &#39;divide and rule&#39; would work in<br/>
&gt; this instance? Or <br/>
&gt; were just terribly naive/stupid?<br/>
&gt; can anyone clear this up?<br/>
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