Pakistan must rethink its policy toward Afghanistan and support the establishment of a federal government in Kabul. Such a system would limit the ethnic dominance of Pashtun rulers to the border provinces. The current Pashtun-centric regime in Kabul, created and backed...

...by Pakistan, harbors ambitions of Pakistan’s disintegration and dreams of forming a “Loy Afghanistan.” Moreover, a federal government would recognize the Durand Line as the international border and would have no reason to engage in an arms race with Pakistan.