NWFP to be renamed Pakhtoonkhwa: Zardari

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@thejoke

Pakhtuns have never been indeginious to the area. Its Hindkowan who are indigenous people living here. Most Pakhtuns claim “proudly” to be from places near Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar.

Hindko was widely spoken in Mardan,Swabi, Kohat Peshawar maybe as far north as Swat but they have been over taken and out numbered by Pashtuns.

Restoration implies the name was Pakshtunkhwa to begin with - theres no historical record of it ever beeing named that. Quite frankly there was less Pashtuns too.

The whole Pashtun identity thing is quite new. Pashtuns never called themselves Pashtuns but Afghans before. The British referred to them as either Pathans or Afghans at the start. It was the Afghan vs Sikh war. The Mughals do not mention Pashtu being spoken in Kabul but they mention Afghani. the Mughals do not even mentioned Pashtuns but they mention Afghans.

Thats why non-pashtuns from nwfp have a problem with having a name imposed upon them.

I can’t believe that I am reading this! This is the equivalent of the revisionist history that many Indians forward. East of the Abasin has been Pakhtun territory for thousands of years. As some of the other member have given more than enough proof to your ridiculous assertion, I am not going to labor the point further.

Give it a rest, Pakhtunkhwa = has been home to Afghans/Pakhtuns for thousands of years. You’re right that it wasn’t called Pakhtunkhwa, it was Afghanistan