{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Would creating a Pashtunistan solve Afghanistan’s troubles?","author_name":"Laura R. Standley","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4634.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4634.html'\u003EWould creating a Pashtunistan solve Afghanistan’s troubles?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince about the middle of January this year, I have been conducting an informal experiment here in America.  I would post online on forums and in engage in casual discussions with my fellow Americans about Afghanistan.  I posted the historical context of how the Pashtun and Baluchi peoples were carved up by borders created by the bygone imperialist aspirations of the British Raj and the Russians.  I tell people that as long as we expect both countries to administer disparate peoples under (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}