haviZsultan
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Hindko speakers are not Pushtoons...
If somebody says that,they are either ashamed of their origins or lying...
Some tribes have Pathan descent,but arent pure pushtoons,i am not one of them..
Hazara is a word from turkish language...it means a thousand soldiers..
Thousand soldiers of turkish origin took refuge in the area now called Hazara....in the times of Alexander..
Most people of Hazara are from that and other mixed origins...
Save for Tanolis of the mountains surrounding turbela dam..they have more pushtoon blood and many are bilingual...speaking Pushto and hindko..
Towards east of Abbotabad,its pure hindko area,with language changing from hindko,to Pahari hindko to Kashmiri...
My ethnic origin is not important here...facts are important..
The fact is that many Pushtoons have soft spot towards Taliban and Afghan refugees on linguistic and ethnic ground..
Just because taliban of sawat and tribal areas are pushtoons,many pushtoons choose to support them,and that is fact.
I must appreciate you on the bold part. By rules among Nationalists it was forbidden for us to even refer to our ethnic group but later on i noticed it was quite pointless and didn't have any affect as a person's origin could be judged easily by his hometown or his language. It was considered a means to beat racism but most of us broke the law anyway. There was no sword hanging anyway. But the thing is it is impossible for this to work... and people are naturally racist by nature. Its a mindset we have adopted. It basically played a part in me learning Pashto and some other languages so it would be difficult to gauge but the problem is not for me or you Safriz. Its for people who take race too seriously and do consider it important
But you can't start blaming all Pashtuns. Its very easy to fall into this trap. My friend is a pure Pashtun but he has this unexplained dislike of the Mahsuds (tribe) increasing day by day with the progress of the war on terror. His mother is from Buner and he claims Mahsuds are involved in crime and looting there. But this is a wrong approach.
This is a very wrong approach and in my paper on ethnic tensions I plan to give reasons why this can be the cause of more trouble. Events such as these in the past have been the arrest of Baloch leaders by ZAB, arrest of Mujib Ur Rehman iby Yahya and killing of Bugti by Musharraf, all of which have exacerbated tensions.