Re: Musharraf proposes to name NWFP as ‘Khyber’
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if you read history books the present day nwfp was virtually uninhabited.....since the period of mahmud of ghaznawai
most "hindko" speakers arrived after the sikhs took peshawar.....under the sikhs peshawar halved.....previous to that peshawar was a winter capital of afghanistan....
so the dominant language would have been persian and pashtu then......the sikhs hated pashtuns and drove them out....
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Oh please!!! When will my ignorant Pashtuns open their eyes to reality and stop living in fantasy??? Then we wonder why today we are one of the most backward ethnicity on earth and on a fast downward spiral.
There’s reality which is supported by archaeological facts and historical data and there’s the sensational hogwash wrote by over sentimental so called Pashtun warrior poets and self declared armchair historians, the latter might be good to keep a people patriotic and move armies with fanatical zeal but please it’s not a good idea to cut oneself off from reality and blind oneself with fanciful notions which are far from reality because you are only making a fool out of yourself and your ethnicity and nobody else is buying your bullcrap so stop kidding yourself with far fetched theories.
I have never come across any ethnicity, which has as ‘fertile’ an imagination as my people, we are experts at exaggerating and fairytaling about ourselves but in reality we are all talk no action and I don’t think there’ll be any improvement because we like to dwell and over exaggerate a few past feats and that’s why our situation is deteriorating because everyone knows that a people who walk looking backwards stumble and fall. There have been greater dynasties than our inferiority complexed 'Persian revering' Afghan dynasty but their people were not stuck in romanticism so because of their humble attitudes they continue to prosper but sadly our people are like tramps.
Now getting back to the topic, Pishore and NWFP were originally Hindko speaking and this is centuries and centuries ago like when there was a Desi country called Gandhara here, the ancestors of Pashtuns and Persians and what have you came later, I admit the reign of Sikhs did cause my brave handsome Pashtun warriors to flee with their tails between their hind legs like jackals (I wonder what happened to defence of 'zan zar zameen'?) from Daalkhor Punjabis which would dwindled our numbers further in the region but I think Pashtuns/Afghans were already a minority in the region, even if they were the majority that recently, the archaeological and historical evidence says that Gandhara (eastern Afghanistan, NWFP, NW Punjab) was a Hindko speaking country before arrival of the Pashtuns on the scene.
Don't blindly believe and propogate far fetched myths just because they support your agenda, accept reality with an open mind.
You can love your culture but it's not nice to undermine other ethnicities and be insensitive to their plight because that's racism, so I think we should stop being racist bigots and opt for neutral names for all provinces including Balochistan.