Re: Pashtoon and arms culture
You think we are ready to kill and rob any living soul around us unless he is carrying gun?. Unlike stereotypes prevalent in attock-key-uss-paar pakistan, pashtun society is highly organized with proper unwritten laws known as pashtunwali. Usually population in pashtun villages is homogeneous, they are kinsmen , have common ancestor i.e if village name is ibrahim khel then it means all the people in that village are descendants of a person named ibrahim. They are relatives and are very united. Any issue is resolved with pashtunwali and islamic principles.
Murder is the most dangerous thing to commit in pashtun society, it could spark decades long feud. So people usually show high restrain because they know that if they kill X.Y.Z person , then family members of the deceased would take revenge from them. it is stereotype that pashtuns carry around guns for 24 hours. yes every pashtun has weapons in his house but he carries it outside only when he has enmity with some one or his clan is at war with another one…
Every village has defense system called “chagha”. Chagha are security patrols in bad times. Our village formed chagha parties against taliban incursions from waziristan in 2007.
A village or group of villages can form offensive lashkars when the situation demands. On government request, we formed aman laskars against taliban.