User talk:Bp storm

Okay, I'll try again to get this citation right! The Swat Valley has always been part of Afghanistan and still is today, despite what the British and Americans tell you. The Ancient Kings of Afghanistan used Peshawar as their capital many times. Peshawar is further into present day(sic) Pakistan than the Swat Valley is. I found this history in a book I purchased in Kabul in 1978. Mahayana Buddhism was created in Afghanistan, not in India(India was created in Afghanistan and in particular the Swat Valley) and certainly not in Tibet. In fact the Afghans abandoned Mahayana Buddhism as un-workable in favor of Islam centuries before the Tibetans ever heard of it.

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Please be aware that political borders are not representations of real physical phenomena. They are consensus fictions. Thus, it is not true that the Swat Valley has "always been in Afghanistan" and has "never been part of India"; these are questions of definition. Please do not alter the article in that way again. DS (talk) 18:08, 30 January 2011 (UTC)