I dont know why you associate yourself with Pir Roshan. For selling a book/novel on war on terror (with Pashtun characters in it), you obviously committed the fraud and made a false claim. You were hoping that it will sell like Kite runner?, by associating with Pashtuns, your book will have more credibility?. No matter how much it offends you but lanat on me if i am not honest and straight forward with you. You want a hypocrite butter-talk or "Safa Khabara" of a Pashtun?
This type of combative attitude and dislike if not hatred for well wishers of Pashtuns or those wanting to merge as one is the primary threat to the pashtun cause. You do not see that the falling number of Pashto speakers will need more outsiders coming towards pashto.
People like you are traditionalists and hate anyone from outside trying to be like them. Rather than seeing Pashtuns rise jointly with Pakistan you seek to sabotage their growth in the hope that it will damage Pakistan. This will not happen. What has my book got to do with anything. People from outside have written books and made films of Scots, indigenous Indians and Japanese which have been highly positive towards them. It brings attention to a topic that is not discussed. It looks towards the heroes of Pashtun culture who sacrificed much for liberty, humanity and peace.
My book is also very sympathetic to Pashtuns but you are too blind to see that.
Then there is the question is hating something without trying it. Its like saying Pizza Hut is bad without ever trying it. Such a person who destroys anothers reputation with an agenda is the real lanati rather than a person who works to improve a communities image. Other than that you are a known traitor and Anti Pakistani.
The book does not have more credibility because it is about Pashtuns. The book has credibility because it tells a story that is engaging and sympathetic towards a group of people who have worked hard for a living and for Pakistan. What is your true problem with the book? That it paints the Pashtuns as patriotic Pakistanis rather than traitors like your typical brothers Admin Khan and Toramana?
Here i breaks it down to you,
1- In India , the Ansaris, who are very numerous, 99.99% of them have nothing to do with Pir-Roshan or Pathans. The numerous Ansaris in all parts of India, other than those of Qaimganj, are converts from low caste of Hinduism and are associated with a particular caste
Ansaris are not part of any low caste. We were gifted land from the mughals and Abu Ayub Ansari is an ancestor. I have repeated this constantly. Hate filled and racist individuals like you find the connection though. Even we don't know for sure whether we have links with Pir Roshan and it is not an accepted fact in our family. However we could share a connection.
In reality it does not matter. At the end of the day I respect pashtuns and my book has brought me closer to them to such a degree that I learn about them and if possible identify as one after Pakistan.
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2- I have went through Lucknow district Gazetteer, British have documented all names of Pathan tribes which live Lucknow city, nearby Malihabad Town and some other villages, also briefly mentioning the histories of some notable families. None were Descendants of Pir Roshan.
There are dozens of Pashtuns who are present in Lucknow and surrounding areas like Barabanki and Fatehpur (Fatehpur is known for pashtun heritage). The only thing is when the partition occurred and these Pashtun families moved they did not know pashto due to heavy presence outside Pashto language speaking areas. Thus they became urdu speakers. At least 30% of Urdu speakers are like this including Saulat Mirza.
Identity is a strange thing. It can live on in these urdu speakers as they often identify as Yousfzai, Niazi or Khattak but people like you stand like a wall blocking them from seeking out their pashtun roots most notably out of fear they will not support a divisive agenda-especially one asking for the break up of Pakistan.
3- The true descendant of Jalala s/o of Pir-i-Roshan, are called "Khanzadas". They live in Kaimganj area of Farrukhabad (some of them might have migrated to Karachi n 1947). Pir-i-Roshan's grandson and son of Jalala, Allahdad Khan entered into the Mughal service. Got the title of Rashid Khan and became a very high ranking mansadar in Mughal army. His brother Mirza Khan Ansari, a famous Pashto poet, also settled in India. They were given a jagir in Shamsabad which they named Mau Rashidabad. Rashid Khan converted Mau into a colony of Pashtuns, mostly from Karlanri tribes who were his followers. The descendants of Rashid Khan and Mirza Khan, were called "Khanzadas" and they held prestigious position in the area. Later a Bangash from Mau, Muhammad Khan, made a tremendous progress and established Farrukhabad state. The rise of Bangashs, over-shadowed the Khanzadas and in 1878 Irvine williams reports that Khanzadas are improvised and take care of the tombs of their ancestors in Kaimganj. They had lineage tree and other records in their possessions.
You are focused too much on texts that speak of the Pashtuns. How would you know more about my lineage and history than us? I never said I have 100% proof that we are ancestors of Pir Roshan. It is believed by some of us we are and the Ansari lineage speaks of this.
