DBWI: Pashtunistan has Confederate Syndrome?

I’m a new user and have been doing research for my Global Conflicts class and have to do a project: compare a modern conflict with one that happened in the past. My idea had been this: compare the War of Unification in 1877 with the irredentist claims of Pashtunistan and the Indian Federation over Kashmir. My thoughts had been that in many ways Kashmir is essentially the Pashtuns’ version of the disputed states of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. In both cases, both nations claim it, but the country that lost the independence war (India or the USA) controls it. Now Mullah Hafez is making noises about invading to get it, just like Nathan Bedford Forrest over the Border States, and now they both have a (semi) stable ally to back them (Hapsburg Mexico and the Tsarist-backed shah in Iran). Both allies have a rebel group that controls part of that ally (Benito Juarez’ republicans, Massoud Rajavi’s People's Mujahedin of Iran). Most importantly, the Confederacy and Maximilian got curbstomped in the resulting war, and something tells me that even though Pashtunistan got its independence in the mid 90s and partitioned Afghanistan with Iran, the Pashtuns and Shah Reza are in store for a big surprise (Rajavi's probably gonna get his "Iranian Democratic Republic"). A clear case of "Confederate Syndrome" (That because you beat a foreign power once, you can do it any time). Any thoughts?
OOC: Reza is OTL’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Cyrus Pahlavi
 
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