Re: illegal immigrants
Bro it’s not healthy to be delusioned like that, there was a time when I thought like you and even now when a fellow Paki bro says something unsavoury about Pashtuns I get all protective and patriotic of Pashto even if it was something we deserved but let’s put emotion aside and be realistic and rational for a bit, most Pashtuns from Afghanistan are indifferent to us Pakistani Pashtuns, Punjabi and Urdu speaking people of Pakistan are generally a lot more warm and respectful towards us compared to Pashtun people from Afghanistan, instead of being idiots we should return respect with respect.
I've hardly ever heard of or seen any instances of Afghan refugees living in harmony with the locals and this is Peshawar and Attock I'm talking about, just trouble for us and they don't think of us as blood brothers.
People of Afghanistan don’t care for us because they don’t care for Pashto as it’s all about Dari (Persian) for them now and even those who do speak Pashto speak a highly Persianised version, there might be a few people in the rural areas in the south who give Pashto importance but all the urban Afghan Pashtuns I’ve met are mostly Dari speakers, kids of mixed families almost always end up speaking Dari and I’m sure interethnic marriages in Afghanistan will rise in the coming decades, even those who speak Pashto give it an inferior status to Dari. This is the majority of Afghans I’m talking about there might be a few exceptions.
I disagree with you when you say Pashtun and Afghan are synonymous because they’re not anymore, maybe once they were and I know Pashtun poets wrote emotional poetry affirming that but the poets were not infallible and their words not timeless, all Pashtuns were once Afghan but never mind history, forget romanticism, our people have a bad habit of living in the past (and then having the cheek to blame others for our backwardness), today Pashtuns in Afghanistan are Afghans as are the Tajiks and Azaras from Afghanistan but the Pashtuns of Pakistan are just Pakistani Pashtuns who were once Afghan, Afghan is not synonymous to Pashtun anymore and never will be whether we like it or not.