Pak-Afghan War, Great Game, Durand Line, Pukhtunistan And Pashtuns | Ayaz Wazir | Sohail Asghar Khan

Sohail Asghar Khan sat down with a former Pakistani diplomat and expert on Pak-Afghan affairs for an in-depth conversation offering a rare, experience-based analysis of Afghanistan, the former FATA region, and the Pashtun belt. From global power rivalries in Afghanistan to the long-term impact of proxy wars, he explains how Pashtuns have repeatedly been treated as expendable lives in conflicts not of their making. The discussion also covers rising Pak-Afghan tensions over TTP, the question of war between the two neighbors, Afghanistan’s stance at the UN in 1947, and the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, described as a decision taken without the consent of its people.