Re: Have you gone out with non-desi/pakistani guys/girls?
Shahrukh Khan is not a Pashtun (or Pathan in Hindi/Urdu), he is a Peshawari Hindko who are Desis. Other Bollywood celebrities who are Hindko (but are ignorantly labelled Pashtun by some) are Dilip Kumar, Qawwi Khan, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor, they are all Hindko and therefore Desi, Hindko is very similar to Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi.
Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Ayub Khan was also Hindko but due to inferiority complex he sometimes claimed to be Pathan, which is unfortunate because they themselves are quite an educated, accomplished and refined group of people.
Before Pashtuns came to NWFP and eastern Afghanistan these areas were indeed Desi and they were inhabited by Hindko people who followed Buddhism, even today Hindko people live side by side with Pashtuns in NWFP but there’s none left in Afghanistan.
I don’t know about other Khans they might be of Afghan origin or they might be Hindko or neither, but a lot of them have Indian mixed into them.
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This discussion sickens me to the core. They say Punjabis/Pathans/Sindhis and most of the North Indians are "Aryans" without knowing the meaning of the word. "Aryans" means white and I havent met anyone from the sub-continent who looks an inch white
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I agree with you on this point, whilst the ethnic groups you mentioned are partially of Aryan stock they have other races mixed into them who equally form a part of their heritage which is confusing so just be content with present cultures and not think ourselves better than anyone else because of our present culture or past heritage.