Although i agree with you on the nationalism among the pashtons, but the rest of what you said is unrealistic.
the very word 'Pashtun/Pakhtun' means Afghan.
Do you know that this name applied to all of us despite our objection to it and it was in the last century? Name of the country wasnt Afghanistan before, this name is one of the source of tension among us. Imagine if Pakistan was called Panjabistan, would it have been accepted by the other people?
The way Mecca is for Muslims, the 'historic land of Afghanistan' is for Pashtuns/Pakhtuns.
That is another stupid thing, if you go to history pages you will see the tajiks having alot longer history in that country compare to the pashtoons, but we never claimed that the country is ours only. the problem with Pashtoon nationalsism and pakistani friends is that they dont go any further than Ahmad Shah Abdali when it comes to history of our country.
Read literature of famous Pakhto/Pashto poets over thousands of years, you will know what I'm talking about.
Which thousands of years are we talking? any proof of that? Persian literature with all its richness doesnt claim thousands of years of its literacy, how come pashtons of afghanistan claim such a thing for their language? Empty and propaganda talk is easy.
So yes, Afghan Nationalism is the FIRST thing in their minds.
To be fair pashtoon nationalism is not the only cancer in Afghanistan, Tajik and other nationalsims are also present in the country, if we blame the enthno nationalsim only on the pashtons will be unfair, BUT pashtoon nationalism came into existence and resulted in huge supresion of other ethnicities over a hundred and fifty years that resulted in creation of Tajik nationalism first followed by the others, we had to do something to defend ourselves, wellcome to afghanistan, a divided country based on ethnic lines. Sad, truely sad.
Add to that, most Afghan Pashtuns have not accepted the Durand Line as an international border. Karzai declared the Durand Line as 'invalid', saying a line had divided two brothers.
agree.
Well, they don't treat their Pakistani Pakhtun brothers by hurting their sentiments with their nationalistic idealism. Pakistani Pakhtuns do not talk about a nationalistic Pashtunistan because they would not want to sacrifice their comforts to get downgraded in a Pashtunistan; a Pashtunistan is most certainly an upgrade for Afghan Pashtuns from Afghanistan.
I have lived in Peshawar and know the realities well. Pakistani Pakhtuns might or might not have ethnic issues with Panjabis and others, but joining Afghanistan in the name of Pashtunistan is never in their mind.
Despite being 40% of the Afghan population, they are treated worse in their "own" country than the 20% Pakhtuns in their "foreign" country of Pakistan. Afghan Pashtuns are always playing 2nd fiddle to the Tajiks, who are the most prosperous ethnicity in Afghanistan despite only being 27% of the population.
I honestly dont understand where did you get these untrue ideas from? who told you the pashtons are supresed? They have supressed us for several decades and centries, our land have been taken from us and given it to the pashtoons, our culture and language is under systematic pressure for very very long, they simply want to destroy it so pashto langauge and culture can replace it, our political and social rights have always been undermined, every privilage have been given to the pashtoons, the pashtoon rulres even avoided to built schools in Hazara areas, do you know that right now over 70% of foreign aid is going to pashton areas despite the fact that non pasthon areas are well in a postion to receive those aid because of peace? In the past every single army general was pashtoon, all officials and gov was nothing but pashtoon, hazaras and uzbeks only had to be servants in the houses of those pashtoons, only tajiks could occupy lower posts and very few higher posts due to their skills and also rate of literacy is the highest among tajiks in Afghanistan, otherwise we were suprressed and killed badly, please please do get facts right.
to raise their population from 40% to 70%; and overpower the Tajiks that currently control the country.
Brother, the tajik parties are in oppostion, most of posts in the gov be it provincial or central in the cabinet are filled by pashtoons.
