Politics & Governance
Khorasan, Pakistan, and the Politics of Sacred Geography
The Khorasan debate is not really about maps alone. It is about prophecy, identity, and Pakistan’s urge to locate itself inside a grander civilizational story.
That skepticism matters, because sacred geography can quickly become political intoxication. Once a society starts reading its present through flattering symbols instead of disciplined history, every strategic mistake can be reframed as part of some larger destiny. Every blunder becomes “4D chess.” Every ideological project becomes sanctified through vague civilizational language. In Pakistan, where the state, jihad-era mobilization, frontier mythmaking, and religious narrative have overlapped for decades, that kind of rhetorical inflation is especially risky. The source material reflects this very suspicion, including the argument that such narratives were cultivated during the Afghan jihad era and later turned against the same structures that once found them useful.
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