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Acha saeen toh phir ab se hum sab ko Urdu mein hi bolna chahiye. Aap Angrezi kyun bol rahe ho?

Perhaps you did missed the part when I said we are based in KPK and originally arrived from Afghanistan? My family were in Afghanistan from almost 200 years so naturally we forgot Punjabi! My grandmother could speak it and relatives in Punjab still can. I mainly grew up in Pindi/Islamabad. Half...

You must have misread. I said I can’t speak Punjabi. From the start I said I speak Urdu and Pashto in my family. I also know English and Farsi Our people never lie. Sometimes we are forced to hide due to persecution (taqiya) but we never tell lies outright. We are bound by honouring moral code...

Your language? It belongs to me as much as it does to you Good luck and may your God help you I have never used abusive words for anyone. Although I want to, I never have. So who is more civilized? When you say I am overstepping, you are propagating the Hindu caste system. So by your own...

Before speakers of Sanskit and related languages the speakers of Dravidian were widespread and even before there were Austroloid people. The latter two were displaced and outcastes and they became they untouchables and gypsies. We are from them but have admixture from the invaders Language...

In that case the Urdu needs to be promoted more and India should also preserve take steps to protect but that is not likely in present circumstances. But I still feel there should be a standard system. There are no dialects reflected in the traditional Urdu alif be This mentality is why...

Our people have made the biggest contribution in Pashto music because traditionally tribal Pashtuns did not pursue musical careers and these gypsies were the entertainers. They were called Dom. Afghani people still sing ‘da zamung zeba watan day da Afghanistan day’ and this song was composed and...

I don’t know if this is the right section to post in but I have a thought, we in Pakistan we don’t have a standard system for writing Urdu (and other regional languages like Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi and they should be given importance but that is another topic) in the English alphabet...

These are two of the most popular Pashto singers but if you saw them on the street you wouldn’t think they are ‘Pathan’. Many times even Pakhtuns don’t recognize us when we go somewhere and talk to us in Urdu and then we surpise them that we speak Pashto and we also consider ourselves part of...

This is a video (in Pashto) that shows how a tribe in Lakki Marwat lives and celebrates a wedding and people give interviews about their situation. If you can’t understand, when the anchor asks them how their culture is different from Pakhtuns, they say we are the same ‘brothers of the Kalima...

Thank you so much for your appreciation, support and kind words! A lot of research and cross-verification is needed when writing about such communities. The saddest thing for me, is that there is no unity among these tribes. They label each other with the same words that the mainstream...

Good observations you have made and I agree with most. However, unlike Punjab where all these groups like settled sweepers and gypsies have quite different culture, in Pakhtun areas and Afghanistan, we are all classified together because we are grouped as ’Jattan’. Musalli and Kutana are...

Thank you! Wow its good to meet someone from that region! We also used to speak this dialect of Pashto, its very beautiful and sweet, but now many of our younger generation speak with ‘Pukhto’ accent because of travelling to different regions. Aap ki baat sahih hai Inshallah To a person...

Great! Progress is slowly being being made. I want to congratulate this sister on her hard work and new found success. One day I hope a Kohli can become prime minister of Pakistan too.

That makes sense

Thank you! As you say, I imagine it would very hard now that they have all been digitalized. We still have the ones from before, without biometrics

Thanks. I must also bring to light instances where Pakistani Pakhtuns have claimed to be Afghan refugees and got asylum in the UK. I personally know these people from Dir and their secret is not a secret

Thanks. I did spend some time checking for any mistakes but as you know typos are unavoidable! Inshallah, I will regain this faith for which my forefathers haw left everything behind (before Partition we also had zamindar relatives who recived land as gifts becuase they were...

I and my parents and brother do not Pakistani passports but because we have old NIC we can enter Pakistan without visa. To be honest I do not think I will leave Europe to go back although my family is there. I have got British nationality I imagine Zarsanga also has a passport as she has been...

Thanks a lot for your response and yes, I had written that beforehand and wanted to share it somewhere. I agree with a lot the things you have said It is true that I have lost faith. My faith in Allah was once very strong, and perhaps I may regain it by some miracle. As far as the aboriginal...