If Afghanistan dream in regard to Durand line comes true, that would mean Afghanistan will be part of Greater Pakistan provided prophesied Ghazwa-e-Hind occurred simultaneously. According to the Durand Line agreement, Afghanistan relinquished a few districts, including Swat, Chitral and Chageh, although it gained other areas, Nuristan and Asmar, for instance, which it had historically not controlled. The agreement, at least on paper, for the first time demarcated where the Indo-Afghan border started and ended. Before the Durand Line agreement, both India and Afghanistan would make incursions into each other’s domain of influence, frequently sparking border tensions. Drawing the Durand Line was one of the final acts in the Great Game, the long campaign to stop the Tsars' southward expansion, a phenomenon that also explains Britain's earlier entanglements in Afghanistan - the disastrous wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80. KABUL: Afghanistan’s military has pushed back a Pakistani forces’ bid to fence a portion of the Durand Line in Kandahar city outskirts and remain on the defensive mode, according to local authorities. Security forces in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province – sharing a porous border with Pakistan – have repelled Pakistani border troops who were attempting to fence the borderline with Afghanistan. Kandahar gubernatorial spokesman, Bahir Ahmad Ahmadi, said Pakistan forces ...
