Pak-Afghan-Iran Confederation

Had Bhutto been alive today the Muslim world would have definately become a potent force today. He would have reinforced and built on the unity that he had achieved among the Muslim world by holding summit of the rulers of almost all the Muslim countries in Lahore in 1974. Even his worst critics believe that he had no parallel in the Muslim world when it came to charisma, political acumen, sense of history and farsightedness. Had he been around today the conflict between Tehran and Riyadh, perhaps, would not have, in the first place, risen at all. The rulers of the Muslim countries gave their ear to whatever he suggested and that quality of his spoke volumes for his standing and stature in the entire Muslim world.
Insiders say that he had almost succeeded in persuading the then Afghan ruler Sardar Daud Khan to agree on the formation of a Confederation of Afghanistan and Pakistan with possible inclusion of Iran into it also at a later stage. Imagine the benefits that would have come our way, had Kabul, Islamabad and Tehran entered into a tripartite Confederation. That would have also hit the final nail in the coffin of the India’s conspiracies against us for which it used Afghan soil and which have been a constant headache for us since 1947. In the two world wars, the Europeans on both sides of the political divide had killed millions of each other but they forgot the wounds inflicted on their body and psyche by these two wars and they grouped themselves into European Union. If they could unite under a single banner despite their past animosity, why cannot Muslim countries of this part of the world forget their rancour and assemble into a sort of political, economic and administrative arrangement for the betterment of the future of their offspring.
Prime minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, on his part, has been trying his best to hammer out a formula for ending tension between two brotherly Muslim countries of Iran and Saudi Arabia but one feels he is greatly handicapped by the absence of a full time foreign minister.