so there are da muslim jatts, sikh jatts, pathans, afghanis etc etc etc… i have no idea wat caste i am..
we’re from nwfp, attock. our families speak hindko punjabi and some speak pushto as well… wat am i??? punjabi?
now if ur gonna suggest y dun i ask my parents then tat wont help cuz my father is no more and my mom knows nothin. believe it or not, my dad neva talked abt caste when we were growing up and after reading all these posts in gupshup it juz occured to me i dun even know wats my caste. i know its not important and has neva been all my life but juz for general info at least?
Nisa ask your mum or dad what your "qaum/zaat" is, I know in Urdu it means nation but in Hindko it has a slightly different meaning and no you are not Punjabi, you're Hindko, my bhaabi is Hindko and I use to call her Punjabi to irritate her but Punjabi and Hindko languages and people are really quite different and Punjab province is only upto Jhelum, it's nice to see u say Attock is part of NWFP but officially it is not but who cares what people sat in Lahore say? Attock people will always be inseprable from us.
I'm Pashtun of the Durrani tribe from NWFP but I have Hindko speaking cousins in Attock who belong to Durrani and other clans, who knows we might be related? Which village are you from?
At the end of the day it doesn't really matter because caste is from the Hindu religion and none of us are Hindu anymore so now caste names only serve the purpose of family names like Smith or McDiarmid do amongst goras, use the term tribe or clan instead because caste suggests inferior or superior, which is just bullsht and in peoples heads to make them feel better.
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In a way ur right, it ties you to an identity and customs which are so irrlevant in the modern world even in Pakistan let alone in the west, we all go back to Adam and Eve so it doesn't really matter if we have track of the entire bleedin familytree or not, it's liberating not worrying about these silly things.
I'm just a Brit over here and Paki when in Pak and I couldn't care less for most of my tribe, feel detached from them because they are jaahil morons most of them, my immediate family is enough as my tribe.
punjabi?
