Re: Gujars
The grain of reality you are talking about is "your grain of reality" not in accordance with historical facts. True, they have been involved in military stuggle but for their own liberty and whenever their land has been attacked. As they fought against British and Russians, so did they fight against Mughals, Iranis, and others.
Pashtuns have established many kingdoms, states, and empires but none was theocray. Until the emergence of MMA, thanks the mechanation of Pakistani establishment, (MMA=Mullah Military Alliance), secular parties held sway, not to forget the non-communal and secular Khudai Khidmatgars who won elections in Pashtun areas in 1937 and 1946.
Pashtuns don't need Islam to redine and distinguish themselves from others.
Pan-Islam and Political Islam have sprung from identity crisis in Hindustani Muslims. In quest for a new identity different from non-Muslim inhabitants of Hindustan, they have sought links with other Muslim communities based on Pan-Islamic sentiments. In fact, in todays world, Hindustani and Arab Muslims are the two communities that are basions of Ideological and militant Islam (One needs it to liberate Palestine and expand Arab political and cultural influence and the other to find an identity for themselves, to legitmate the concept of nationhood based on religion, and to liberate Kashmir). Pakistan Ideology is another expression of theocratic Idealism to justify nationhood.
Islamabad means "abode of Islam" and Pakistan means "Land of the Pure" (as if those residing outside the bounds of Pakistan were not impure), again theocratic symbolism.
When Kamal Ataturk decided to dessolve Islamic Khalafat, these Hindustani Muslims appealed to him not to do that. Tehrik-i-Khalaft, the movement for restoration of Khalafat, had been waged by Hindustani Muslims with leaders from Hindustan.
Of the 17 terrorists arrested in Torronto, 12 are Pakistani and I bet none is Pashtun.