**bro! you don't know the history of Sarhad. That's a shame.
Let me give you a bit of background of the political landscape of the region as it existed around the challenging years of 1940s.
Sarhad residents (Pashtuns, Hinkos, and Hazaras) were mainly divided along left-wing Hindu-Congress (with main leader as Badshah Khan aka sarhadi ghandi) and right-wing Muslim League. Until 1947 no implicit or explicit name-change claims were made by either of the two main parties. **
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The name change was not an issue in the face of the larger matter at hand (Azadi from the British). Issues like name change, living in a Muslim country were implicit in the minds of the voters.........
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Look British partitioned Punjab and made Sarhad in 1902 and they appointed Pashtun officers and politicians to run the newly created region.
Now go back to your family historians and ask them if they can produce a single document from 1902 through 1947 that shows even a small application to set the name of the Sarhad correctly. And yes majority of Pashtuns WERE NOT FIGHTING the British in 1902.
For 55 years (From 1902 to 1947) not a peep came out for the name change. It was only when Pakistan came into being AGAINST the Hindu supporters' plans, that they turned around and started raising ethnic slogans in cahoots with Hindu and Afghanistani socialists.
And you my friend are simply repeating the propaganda of Hindu and Afghanistani socialists.
The problem clearly is with some of the modern day Pashtuns that they don't know much about the "written" history even for the relatively short life of their province.
They listen to few rumors and start believing in them as if they were the divine revelations.
You keep on telling me the name change was implicit. In politics you put your stuff on the table from day 1 and do not carry around things hidden in conspiracy theories.