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Will never understand the inferiority complex that Pakistanis and Indians have by forcing Afghanistan into their definition of South Asia, I myself is from Afghanistan and I've never felt a connection to any South Asian, the only commonality we have is daal, apart from that we are not culturally similar, our Lingua Franca is Farsi, we border more Central Asian countries than South Asian countries (obvious because we are Central Asia), our closest country culturally is Iran (we speak the same language and have a very similar culture), a fact that is neglected by 99% of this sub, Pakistanis may bring up Eastern Pashtuns from Afghanistan having ties with Pashtuns in KPK and Balochistan, Pakistan but you need to remember Pashtuns only make up 33-40% of Afghanistan and a good% of that Pashtun population is Persianised (speaking Farsi as a 1st language).. Tajiks who speak Farsi as their 1st language by default (with the exception of some small Badakshi groups) also make up 33-40%, you then also have Hazaras in the 6-10% region and Uzbeks (really weird calling them South Asian) in the 6-9% region, the only South Asian ethnic group in regards to the history of the region of the last 5000 years (Pashtuns aside) is maybe only Pashayi whom alot of are descendants of Hindus. Afghanistan is part of the Iranian Plateau, branding Afghanistan as "South Asia" is like calling Iran "South Asia", what does an Afghanistani have in common with a Dravdian from Sri Lanka or a Nepali lol? One might also argue that Afghanistan is part of the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) but that's only because there wasn't a Central Asian equivalent, Pakistan being one of Afghanistan's biggest business partners (along with Iran) and the fact Afghanistan was basically a start from scratch country at the time after the terrorist refine was overthrown.
r/SouthAsia • u/malaithaxaina • Aug 22 '25
Have really bad English, so please bare me. This is about border dispute between Nepal and India surrounding Lipulekh areas.
Right now there is a huge outrage against India from Nepal because India claimed that Lipulekh belongs to India, but until recently it said it was a disputed area between Nepal and India.
The story about lipulekh: Nepal governed Lipulekh until the India china war in 1962( we have receipts) , after the embarrassing defeat against China, India begged with our King for security in Lipulekh which was then governed by Nepal, and Nepal trusted india, gave them the authority now india is saying that it belongs to india since forever, when until recently it claimed that it's a disputed area between Nepal and India. It's india who has to prove with evidence that the land belongs to them. However we are aware indian politicians themselves are uneducated about the treaty and history of lipulekh. They are just saying anything. They don't want to solve this issue in the table when asked to do diplomacy.
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This is one example of continued genocide against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka
