SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2: A US expert has suggested the break up of Afghanistan into allied independent states because it is a failed state destined to spread instability for ever.

Ms Eden Naby, an associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, told a seminar here that getting rid of the idea or concept of Afghanistan was very difficult, just as getting over the idea of Yugoslavia was difficult.

She argued: “There is nothing common to all these people. Therefore, the expected amalgamation of ethnic groups into a nation never happened there.”

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