Pakhtunistan (Pakistan)

Last modified: 2003-06-14 by rob raeside
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by Jaume Ollé

• Description of the Flag
• About Pakhtunistan
• Pre-independence Flag

• Pre-independence States of North West Frontier
• Aspirant Peoples of Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan

• Map of Afghanistan - Pakistan Border ("Pushtunistan") 1988 (349 kb), including the Durand Line

Pakhtunistan: flag adopted upon independence 2 September 1947. The proportion of the flag is quoted as 1:2, but later was used in 2:3.
Jaume Ollé, 22 September 1997

The Arabic scripts are the Takbir (i.e., Allahu Akbar = "God is the greatest") above the emblem, "Pashtunistan" below it.
Harald Müller, 23 September 1997

Pakhtunistan [or Pushtunistan] stands for Afghanistan's agitation for the creation along the North-West Frontier of a Pathan state. In 1947 Afghanistan voted against the admission of Pakistan to the United Nations. There have been major crises in Afghan-Pakistani relations over this issue in 1955-57 and 1961-63. However there is no state nor has there ever been one of Pakhtunustan or Pushtunistan. Still it remains a nightmare for Pakistan. Source: