Bravery of Baloch Extremists

[safar777]

@Khan15

Afghans never did any favours to the Hindustani Musalman. After the battle of Panipat, Afghans soldiers raped and pillaged Muslim villages and Qasbas in and arroound Delhi.

And the Marathas never forced anyone to convert to Hinduism. They maintained Farsi as the language of administration, and used Muslim officers and administrators. The poet Ghalib’s uncle was an administrator under the Marathas, and so was Sir Syeds father. Infact, after ten years of Afghan military occupation of Delhi, the people revolted and called Mahadjee Sindhia to expel them and station his forces. Even Shah Waliullah regreted inviting the Afghans, and had very good personal relations with the various Maratha chiefs.

Most Hundustanee Musalmaan have a low opoinion on Afghans, who were often potrayed as dry fruit sellers and money lenders in Urdu literature. So they have nothing to be thankfull to the denizens of Pakhtunkhwa.

And ask any honest Punjabi Musalmaan, and he will nothing but bad things to say about Afghan occupation of Punjab. Infact in Kashmir, the word Afghan is an insult.

The biggest beneficiaries of Panipat were the Sikhs. While Marhattas were greatly weakened, the Mughals were finished. Sikhs filled the power vaccum. While Marhattas retook Delhi and Sikhs reined supreme towards the West.

Pakthuns on this side of Khyber never fared well with the Durranis either. When the Sikhs took over trans-Indus regions they did not maintain permanent posts in several Southern regions like Akora Khattak, Bannu and Lakki Marwat. The Sikhs used to raid in general to collect tribute/taxes from locals.

When the Sikhs would leave, the Durranis would show up and in the name of the Ruler of Kabul would extract from the locals what little the Sikhs had failed to collect. (From Travels in Panjab, Afghanistan and Baluchistan during the Reign of Ranjit Singh by George Masson). Until the British showed up these areas were subjected to double taxation, first by Sikhs then by Durranis.

Safar