Opinion of hypothetical Pashtunistan map?

[phk]

Same as topic.

[minionofmidas]

The Beluchis are not going to be happy with it.

[opebo]

Haha, I love the way it divides Pakistan into an even sillier looking sliver.

But yes, as Lewis Trondheim said, it is probably not necessary to include Balouchistan in the Pashtun dumping ground.  Its a bit more functional and integrated with the Pakistouni state than the 'Tribald Areas'.

[ag]

The Beluchis are not going to be happy with it.

That's most definitely true. Also, chunks of Kashmir that have nothing to do w/ the pashto. Overall, I think this is about twice the size of the pashto-populated area. To sum up: if such a state were created, half of it would secede immediately.

[ag]

But yes, as Lewis Trondheim said, it is probably not necessary to include Balouchistan in the Pashtun dumping ground.  Its a bit more functional and integrated with the Pakistouni state than the 'Tribald Areas'.

And it has nothing much to do w/ the Pashtun.  Actually, not all of NWFP is pashtun as well - not all of NWFP is tribal. And Gilgit (in Kashmir) does not, to the best of my knowledge, have anything to do w/ that either.

Actually, an interesting question would be: would such a state have a pashtun majority. I am not quite sure, fankly.

PS I might be wrong, but it seems such a state would have about 30 mln. people, of whom only a bit more than a half (I'd guess, well under 20 mln.) would be pashtun. This state would have about 6 mln. baluchi, over 2 mln. each of  brahui and hindko, over a million of farsi speakers, and zillions of other minorities, some of those sizeable. It would have almost no pashtuns in the south and in the east, so it cannot be a pasthun state.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As others have already said, the Baluch will not be happy, but a breakup of Pakistan would cause Iran some indigestion since if the Pakistani Baluch get an independent state, there would would agitation in southeast Iran for the Irani Baluch to join them.

[Padfoot]

Just let the entire Middle East rage in sectarian wars until they figure out for themselves how to fix the wonky borders imagined up by France and the UK.  They'll sort it out eventually. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Just let the entire Middle East rage in sectarian wars until they figure out for themselves how to fix the wonky borders imagined up by France and the UK.  They'll sort it out eventually. 

Except that in the case of South Asia, it's the Russians and the British and Russians that are to blame, not the French.

[minionofmidas]

Given just who decided the general lines of British foreign and colonial policy by 1947, without consulting the Brits unless they asked nicely, the Americans belong on that list as well.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Given just who decided the general lines of British foreign and colonial policy by 1947,

Better than having it decided by the Foreign Office

[minionofmidas]

Given just who decided the general lines of British foreign and colonial policy by 1947,

Better than having it decided by the Foreign Office

Let alone the Colonial Office.