Re: Greater Pashtunistan
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When they go to the toilets on stops they prefer to use the stand-up urinals than the squat toilets. In Lahore they say soemthing like "Ramzan jan de, Pathan jan de" or something - some one correct me please!
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True. They don't pray much or fast in Punjab.
Once in Ramadan I asked a healthy Punjabi aunty at the train station "Aunty why aren't you fasting?" she said "Son we give alms to our saint instead, we'll just grab onto hios cloak and he'll tag us along into Heaven".
They also don't pray, except maybe a Friday, they laugh at people from the NW with their "prayer-marks" on our feet/foreheads from the pressure of sitting and protrating.
We once saw some people praying a Funeral in southern Punjab so we joined in, I was shocked when the corpse got up and walked away and another took his place, when I enquired from a boy next to me he said "we don't have any Mullah's here, a foreign one is visiting so we thought we'll all get our funerals prayed in advance because chances are when we die there'll still be nobody here versed in Islamic liturgy".
Another time I saw a graveyard with green and red flags, a Punjabi man said the green flags mark graves whose occupants have had their funeral rites performed, the red ones however haven't and we'll dig them up when a Mullah comes by from somewhere so he can pray the funeral for them.