NWFP to be renamed Pakhtoonkhwa: Zardari

nasirahmed · March 19, 2010, 11:27pm

I am sorry your sensibilities get annoyed. I am not from other province I am from Peshawar. I am Qazalabash. I have personally seen racism by Pashtoons against non-Pashtoons. Anyone not a Pashton is called Punjabiyan and treated as a foreigner while we have been living here for much longer.

Punjab or Sindh is NOT an ethnic name. If Punjab was to be renamed ‘Alaqa-Jaat’ or ‘Rajputana’ because most landowners are Jats or Rajputs in Punjab the Arains,Gujjars,Syeds,Kashmiris, Awans and everyone would resist it.

Same as we would resist this being called Pakhtoonkhawa. A name like Abaseen or Khyber is fine. Both are not ethno-centric.

Balochistan name is also wrong. It shoudl be called Kalat as it was called before. If we change name of Frontier to Pakhtoonkhawa it will become another Balochistan very soon.

Safar

very true.khyber is the best.