Marwat Khan Lodhi
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Afghan Doctor: So Mashr - do you call yourself Afghan or Pakistani?
Tribal elder: Well we are Pakistani but our ancestory and our land is also in Afghanistan.
Afghan doctor: But your forefathers got passports from Amanullah Khan himself right?
Tribal elder: sighs - to tell you the truth my grandfather did not want our other folk to go there because he knew it would creat a schism in our clan. See all of our land is arranged in a grid pattern. You can identify - to this day who is related to who most directly based on location of our plots of land. Thats why i could have a very hard time selling to you but my cousin - not so much. So my grandfather let them go eventually and we have some lands near Kandahar and also near Birmal and what not that Amanullah Khan gave us - but we lost touch with these others.
Afghan Doctor: But dont you think that its very unfair that every group in pakistan gets their own strategic and ethnic territory named for them and each time Pashtuns want something of their own -even if NO sedition is involved - Pashtuns here are told that Islamic character dominates over ethnic character and that this is a plot to dissolve the Islamic nature of pashtuns?
Your grandfather and mine according to the old stories gave us the name Afghan right? Why is it a bad word all of a sudden? Look in the Qurans from the 1930s that the Brits translated and the Arabs themselves sent - they call us all the Afghans. Why shouldnt you own the name as much as us? Pashtuns have been the best defenders of their faith and no one can try to tell them they havent given the most for it - so why should this sort of tactic work on you?
Look at the abuse you get here? You and I go into Peshawar and certain people make fun of our turban they make fun of us as if we are the outsiders even though Peshawar bowed multiple times.
The Elder: Look - we go where our interest is. Our nuts and dried fruit sales are best in that direction.
Doctor: Well if say you had a better market in Kabul would that shift your allegiance?
The Elder: Probably it would make a difference yes. We go where our interest is. When Amanullah and Nadir made it our interest - And Abdali Baba did before them - we went with our interest
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Tribal elder: Well we are Pakistani but our ancestory and our land is also in Afghanistan.
Afghan doctor: But your forefathers got passports from Amanullah Khan himself right?
Tribal elder: sighs - to tell you the truth my grandfather did not want our other folk to go there because he knew it would creat a schism in our clan. See all of our land is arranged in a grid pattern. You can identify - to this day who is related to who most directly based on location of our plots of land. Thats why i could have a very hard time selling to you but my cousin - not so much. So my grandfather let them go eventually and we have some lands near Kandahar and also near Birmal and what not that Amanullah Khan gave us - but we lost touch with these others.
Afghan Doctor: But dont you think that its very unfair that every group in pakistan gets their own strategic and ethnic territory named for them and each time Pashtuns want something of their own -even if NO sedition is involved - Pashtuns here are told that Islamic character dominates over ethnic character and that this is a plot to dissolve the Islamic nature of pashtuns?
Your grandfather and mine according to the old stories gave us the name Afghan right? Why is it a bad word all of a sudden? Look in the Qurans from the 1930s that the Brits translated and the Arabs themselves sent - they call us all the Afghans. Why shouldnt you own the name as much as us? Pashtuns have been the best defenders of their faith and no one can try to tell them they havent given the most for it - so why should this sort of tactic work on you?
Look at the abuse you get here? You and I go into Peshawar and certain people make fun of our turban they make fun of us as if we are the outsiders even though Peshawar bowed multiple times.
The Elder: Look - we go where our interest is. Our nuts and dried fruit sales are best in that direction.
Doctor: Well if say you had a better market in Kabul would that shift your allegiance?
The Elder: Probably it would make a difference yes. We go where our interest is. When Amanullah and Nadir made it our interest - And Abdali Baba did before them - we went with our interest
@Sher Malang, @Abu Zolfiqar, @Spring Onion, @ghilzai, @datalibdaz
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