Chappli Kabab, Kehwa and naswaar?
That is a very sad image of Pashtoons you got there Miss Pathan. What about World Cricket Cup? What about Squash? What about Polo? What about the damn nuke which Pakistan is so proud of? What about the traditional wearing which is now considered the national dress of Pakistan “Khaat Partooog” (Shalwaar Kameez)?
Things you have mentioned are called “stereotypes”. Pashtoons are much more then Naswaar, and Chappli Kabab. But of course, you are a Pathaan, we as Pashtoons should expect such things from Pathans. Poor Pathans have been raped from their identity, their language and culture, their true essence of being.
I have known a lot of foreigners who have lived with Pashtoons for years and years, and unlike other non-Pathan Pakistanis, they won’t brag about the Pathaan use of Naswaar, or their Chappli Kabab or them being hardheaded, fundamental Mullahs nor do they talk about how “homosexuals” they are like many in Pakistan do. In fact, almost all the Brits and Americans that I have known couldn’t stop talking about their hospitality and generosity, their sportsmanship, their devotion to their religion. I know one American who converted to Islam after living in Pekhawar with the Pathans. Not only that, he changed his name to Adam Khan, speaks fluent Pashto, and you can call him a Pashtoon nationalist for that matter.
For guns, guns are part of our culture we had them before the Russians. Since Pashtoons are true democrats, they don’t fallow man made enslaving laws, they make their own laws on their own will. They have the sense of real freedom and true independence and sometime they have to protect that freedom for that they have guns. Just like before Sep.11, if we didn’t have our guns, the Pakistani Army would be in our areas with their masters looking down our houses, but they dare not! Just like 2 months ago, when they cut off electricity to many homes in tribal areas even when contracts were signed that these people will get free power, what happened? Guns came to the rescue when the tribal men blocked all roads and challenged the Pakistani government. Though there is one side affect to all this, with every generation passing, the youth is forgetting what these guns were there for in the beginning. Now days, these guns have truly become the menace of our society thanks to the drug trade. Though before anyone jump to conclusions on that, one should watch the British version of the movie “TRAFIC”, that draws a very clear picture of how the Pathans are used in this drug business by “others” so called their “brothers”.
:yukh:
