Pak-Afghan Relations PRESENTED BY:

1. AMAN IMRAN BUTT

2. MUHAMMAD AMMAR
Strategic importance of
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is situated in the north of KP.

Economic location among south and Central

Asia,India,China,Rassia the USA and others.

Afghanistan is a mountainous country rich with

roaring rivers, deep valleys, vast deserts.

Due to all these qualities has taken the title of

“Heart of Asia”
Natural Recourses and population

 Natural gas, Petroleum, coal, cupper, chromite, talk, barites,

Sulphur, led,
 zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semi-precious stones and arable
land.
 Enriched with uranium.
 • Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, other (includes smaller numbers of
Baloch,
 Turkmen, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arab, Gujar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Aimaq,
Pashai.
Pak-Afghan Relations (1947-2021)

1947-1963
Phase 1 :
1947-2001 1963-1973
Two phases of Pak-
Afghan Relations:
1973-1978
Phase 2 :
1992-2021
1979-1992
 1947-1963

➢ Durand Line : Claim to NWFP | Balochistan

➢ Opposition in UNO: Anti Pakistan resolution
➢ 1955, Attack on Pakistan Embassy in Kabul
➢ 1956, Sikandar Mirza, Shaheed Suharwardy
➢ Zahir Shah, Sardar Daud
➢ U-2 Incident
➢ Closure Consulates office in Peshawar
➢ Kabul broke of trade
1963-1972

Role of Iran : 1965 War : 1971 War :

Resume Afghan Afghan
Trade Support Neutrality
1973-1978

Sardar Daud Issues

Sardar Duad Visit and Bhutto Visit 1976

Duad Accepted Durand Line

1978, Democratic party take hold of

Kabul
Democratic republic of Afghanistan

Ex President Bhutto with Sardar Daoud

 Soviet Invasion 1979

1980, American Assistance :

Mujahidin
1979-1992
Geneva Pact 1988 :

Witnessed by US and Soviet

Union.
 ➢ Taliban 1994 : Took control 27/32 states
:Pakistan Support
1992-2001 ➢ US opposition, Policy changed by bush :
USAMA
 9/11/2001: Pakistan was in trouble

America and Pakistan Reaction

Phase – 2 Peaceful solution, DG I SI meeting with Mullah Umar

(2001-2017)
Taliban Take control of Kabul

Reestablishment of Gov ernment in Kabul

Hamid Karzai
Phase-2
(2017-2021)
➢ Operation Zarb-e-Azab 2014 against TTP
➢ Afghan Forces attack at Chaman Border
➢ Trade disconnected
➢ Operation Radd-ul-Fasad
➢ Afghan peace talks
➢ Doha Accord
➢ Revival of Taliban........
Reasons for Strained Relations

➢ The Indian factor focuses Pakistan's perceptions of Afghanistan and

it
➢ policies there. From the day of independence until 1992, India
supported whatever government was in power in Kabul.
➢ The Pashtunistan issue offered India the Possibility of trapping
Pakistan between two fronts in the event of clash along the Durand
line and along Pak-Indo border.
➢ • Trade purpose.
Thank you!