Sadly Pashtuns west of the Abaseen are really messed up.
They'll be worst off without the rest of Pakistan and the rest of Pakistan will be better off without them.
They are the most backward people on earth, they have a fcuked up understanding of Islam (Yeah we blame Pak gov's jehad thing for that but why are Pashtuns so stupid to fall prey to all that and why are they the most fanatical in all of Pak? Whilst most Punjabis can't even pray Namaz and would rather visit some tomb in Hindu fashion)...
...Fcuked up ideas about religion combined with their really backward culture, on top of that there's so much poverty they have to sell their daughters to rich Punjabis, Muhajirs and Arabs to survive, or they come over to the east of the Indus as thieves to steal and rob.
The situation in the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan is worse.
It's hardly the recipie for a succesful nation.
It's easy to blame Pakistan goverment's, Punjabis etc. and indeed they are partly to blame for the situation in Pashtun regions but not entirely like I said why did Pashtuns play into their hands?
Some educated Pashtuns have this wishful notion of a modern Pashtun nation upon the lines of Ataturk's Turkey but they have a long way to go before that, ANP and its members are not a true representation of the views/psychology of most Pashtuns.
I would love it if Pashtun regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan (including those east of Abaseen) were made into a free Pashtun nation that was modern and had a proper undertsanding of Islam free from fanaticism/mullahism/extremism.
I'm pretty much disillusioned with Pakistan myself but no point in entertaining romantic illusuions about a Pashtunistan that are just not practical..
I'd want Pashtunistan to be like basically a Turkey with a different language (western culture, pashto language, muslim religion) but it aint going to happen.
I'd kill to see cute Pashtun guys wear jeans and t-shirt, lol, Pashtuns are so hott but naswar/pattu/turban/excess-hair etc. is such a turn off.
But I only see ideal modernised Pashtuns in ISB like areas and some in Peshawar but they're all with links to Pak Armed Forces.
Maybe right now the best option for Pashtuns is to just try and get their rigts in Pakistan, name change of their province, introducing Pashto as a medium of education/media, end to Urdu imperialism etc.
Pakistan should have been a federation of Muslim states each with autonomy and their own culture instead of this forced one ethnic thing with Urdu language imported from India forced on everyone.
Mr/Mis Kori fudamentalist and ideological Islam and extrimism are intimately linked with the concept of Pakistan so much so that it has become its genetic ingredient...that is why it has almost become impossible to disentangle Pakistan from fundametalism interpretation of Islam ...and there is a reason for it...Pakistan literally means "land of the faithful or pure"...and Islamabad means "abode of Islam"...more than that, the birth of Pakistani nation is ascribed to Mohmmad Bin Qasim steping foot in Sindh ...such is the theocratic and Islamist basis of Pakistani state...
Pashtuns on the other hand have been existing for millinia but never tried to define themselves theocratically even though they established mighty empires in Iran, Afghanistan, and India...In fact they never felt the need for that because they had their own robust identity based on their ethnicity, culture, and history...Islamic Utopia and the Islamist sunbversive ideologies like Deoband, Jummath -i-Islami, Tabligh, Tanzeem-i-Islami, etc are the product of Indian Muslim Culture and a consequence of the identity crisis in the Indian people that had converted to Islam over the past one millinuim due to the conquest of Muslim invaders including Pashtuns from the north...it spread to our areas thanks the Western geopolitics and its strategy to create an Islamist state and use it to counter communist ideology and expansion...Our people had to bear to consequences of all this geopolitics...
Our people had twice (in 1937 and 1946) elected secular Khudai Khidmatgars allied with Congress before the partition of the subcontinent...that indicates what our society was before partition and what it became as a result of West's Pakistan project...
I hope you look into the ethnic origin of Gen Zia, Gen Hamid Gul, Gen Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Gen Javed Nasir, Gen Mahmood Ahmad (who wired 20,0000 dollars to 9/11 terrorists), Mashaf Ali Mir, Gen Aziz Khan, Khalid Khawaja, Mazharul Islam Abbasi, Jaish-i-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Sipah-i-Sahaba, Lashka-i-Jhangvi, Lashka-i-Taiba...all these are architect of the ideologies of subversion and doctrine of Jehad...
And don't taunt me with naswar...that is more decent than your pan...which you spit everywhere ...and I bet that you people cannot wear your national dresss i.e. dhoti in any formal setting whereas I can wear mine (shalwar Kamis)...why is this dhoti so un-aesthetic by the way...?
Anyhow, despite the problems I will still not like to be part of south asian society for i have travelled there and have found the scenes of humanity to be very repelling...the farther you go towards the east the uglier it becomes...this is my honest opinion and observation...
anyhow, our aim is to establish a practicable sate not necessarily on the model of Turkey ...i think you sould go your own way to join the cousins accross Wahga or whatever you want to do...leave our backwrd culture to us...