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Securing the Durand Line could bring peace to Afghanistan
November 04, 2012 / Javid Ahmad
Financial Times
The reason that Afghanistan and British India chose to demarcate their 1,500-mile frontier in 1893 was to define their respective spheres of influence and limit interference in one another’s affairs. However, the establishment of what came to be known as the Durand Line never truly stopped outside interference in Afghanistan, especially after Pakistan emerged from its partition with independent India in 1947. Ever since, the nature of that line drawn on a map has been a matter of great contention between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The writer is a co-ordinator with the Asia Programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
