Durand Jirga-Durand Agreement Burning Day
Durand Treaty Burning Day
By: Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar,
Independent Scholar,
U.S.A.
(
November 14,
2010, "
Durand Jarga"/
Ariana Afghanistan TV,
California, U.S.A.)
۲۳ لړم ۱۳۸۹ زییز
I, Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar, am of Salarzai-Pashtun/
Afghan heritage. I have decided in company with my Afghan brothers (Dr.
Abdul Ghafar Ashraf Mujadadi, Sedique M. Mateen and
Qasim Tarin) to burn the text of the wretched colonial, dividing and evil intrigue, the so-called Durand treaty, which was imposed on
Afghanistan 117 years ago in 1893 by
British colonialism represented by the foreign secretary of the British-governed
India Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand. The purpose of this evil design was to break the
Pashtun resistance, divide the entire Afghan nation, deprive Afghanistan from access to Baluch-Arabian-Persian Sea, and to undermine the process of nation-building in entire Afghanistan. The division of Afghanistan remains as unnatural, illegal, immoral, and imperialistic today as it was at the end of
19th century when it was imposed.
The
Pashtun/Afghan nation occupies a mass of land, which has been of great geo-strategic importance in the past and will remain in the future as well.
The Great Game's rivalry of the world powers has resurfaced with renewed ferocity and heart-breaking experimentation of the world most lethal weapons in Afghanistan since October 7 of
2001.
Colonies were established to advance the military security, economic exploitation, and to project international prestige of imperial powers. From the very beginning the Afghan nation has been resisting imperial powers and their colonial designs and ambitions. The resisting Afghan nation defeated the
British Empire three times in 1839,
1880 and
1919.
The Afghan resistance to British colonialism that resulted in three
British defeats demonstrated to the rest of the oppressed world that
Western imperialists possessed no inherent invincibility. The private imperialism of the capitalist world could not stop the advances of the social imperialism of the former
Soviet Union. Just 21 years ago in
1989, the Afghan nation, not
NATO, defeated the
Soviet army, destroyed the
Iron Curtain and freed the east
European countries. Historically, the Afghan nation is the champion of defeating the
Soviet social imperialism and ridiculing the racial superiority and military invincibility of western imperial arrogance.
Instead of being thankful to the Afghan nation, the military organization of the private western imperialism NATO invaded Afghanistan in October of 2001- a shameless, illegal and immoral act of aggression.
The business of imperialism is business, not self-determination. For its business, once again, the western private imperialism will try to donate the wretched "
Durand Line" to its adopted son
Pakistan at the cost of occupied Afghanistan and occupied
Pashtunkhwa. A week ago on
November 8, 2010, former
State Department advisor from
2002 to
2007
David Pollock wrote in
Washington Post that the
U.S. government "should advise Pakistan that the
U.S. recognizes the Durand Line and will work with the
Afghan government to lay this ancient issue to rest." The puppet regime of
Kabul is legally incapable to represent the entire Afghan nation and to give the Afghan land as gift to
British Pakistan. This is the reason why I presented my position on the so-called Durand treaty a month ago (
October 10, 2010) on Durand Jarga program broadcasted by Ariana Afghanistan TV from
California, United States of America.
Pashtuns have been fighting for 171 years against colonialism and for national independence and self-determination. The purpose of burning the colonial Durand treaty or the colonial Durand intrigue is to bring to the attention of world community, especially
United Nations, the injustice against
Afghans and their divided country. Also, the Durand treaty burning day shall remind the world of the fact that Pashtuns' annals are not left blank in the history books of the
21st century. Each
November 14th ۲۳لړم=عقرب shall be called the
National Burning Day of Durand
Intrigue.
Down with colonial and imperial treaties! Down with economic and political greed! Down with exceptionalism!
Long live normal countries! Long live national independence, self-determination, solidarity, morality, dignity, equality, and peaceful interdependence. Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar