ABSTRACT
Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam in 1947. Pan-Islamist aspirations are implied in the raison d'etre of Pakistan. Afghanistan, a founding member state of the United Nations, refused to recognize Pakistan's creation, vetoing its admission to the UN in September 1947 on the grounds that the right of self-determination needed to be granted to the people of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) (the Pashtun majority province of British India) before it would accord any such recognition. Pakistan's concerns over Pashtun nationalism stem from the pre-1947 Congress-allied character of the KKT (Khudai Khidmatgar Tehrik or Servants of God Movement) and the subsequent support given to it by the government in Kabul. Pashtun are one of Central Asia's innumerable Turco-Iranian ethnic permutations, but a major one, and also the one that is next door to India. Both the Afghan and Pakistani neocolonial states have been rendered dysfunctional by the Jihad and its effects.
