Quotes about Pashtuns

[Raja.Pakistani]

Monkey da luffy is pasting all stuffs from pashtun forum to defense forums

The only thing we'll every agree on is that we will never agree on anything."--Bacha Khan


True

 

[cleverrider]

TOTALLY AGREED

Don't derail the thread, ONLY Quotes!

 

[SHAMK9]

Monkey da luffy is pasting all stuffs from pashtun forum to defense forums

Let me guess, those forums are full of anti-pakistan trash
anyways, awesome thread.

 

[cleverrider]

George W. Gilbertson in the preface to 'First Pukkhtoo Book' (1901) says:

his is not the race to be despised and crushed by brute-force, although, perchance, this is the only force of which he has conscious knowledge. Rather should we un-remittingly strive towards knowing the man as he is, by learning his language; towards making ourselves familiar with him and his surroundings; towards eradicating, slowly but surely, his ignorance and his waywardness, by a treatment, stern but well-considered, just, and in harmony with the religious beliefs, traditions, and customs of his country; withal towards a policy of clemency, encouragement, and protection; of paternal approbation; not of discouragement and extermination."

 

[cleverrider]

"You're white people - sons of Alexander - and not like common, black Mohammedans" - or so Dravot, the main character of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1891) addresses the Pathans

Weighing a Pathan against an Englishman for their valour in 'The Ballad of East and West', Kipling exclaims:

"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
Though they come from the ends of the earth!'"

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

"You're white people - sons of Alexander - and not like common, black Mohammedans" - or so Dravot, the main character of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1891) addresses the Pathans

Weighing a Pathan against an Englishman for their valour in 'The Ballad of East and West', Kipling exclaims:

"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
Though they come from the ends of the earth!'"

It seems kiplings was an idiot.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

John Masters, the British novelist called wazirs and mehsuds “physically the hardest people on earth;”




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Sir Herbert Edwardes who was the administrator of Bannu and later became the Commissioner of Peshawar in 1853, describes about his first meeting with the chief of the Waziri tribe,

“Mullick Swahan Khan, chief man among the neighbouring tribes of the Vizeerees (waziris], came into camp by invitation to see me. He is a powerful chief, and his country boasts that it has never paid tribute to any sovereign, but exacted it in the shape of plunder from all tribes alike. Swahan Khan is just what one might picture the leader of such a people: an enormous man, with a head like a lion, and a hand like a polar bear. He had on thick boots laced with thongs and rings, and trod my carpets like a lord. The Hindostanee servants were struck dumb and expected the earth to open. With his dirty cotton clothes, half redeemed by a pink loongee over his broad breast, and a rich dark shawl intertwined into locks that had never known a comb, a more splendid specimen of human nature in the rough I never saw. He made no bow, but with a simple “Salaam aleikoom” took his seat.”

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

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. To the poor of their own community they are said to be charitable, and they do not offer violence to the wives and children of their personal foes.
Their barbarity to all strangers, however, is such that every Pathan sepoy in the Indian Army longs for nothing so keenly as a Wazir war."
" Of the Wazir," said Edwardes, "it is literally true that his hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him."

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

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“The romance of Waziristan was related to the reputation of its tribes as fighters: ‘The Wazirs and Mahsuds operating in their own country,
can be classed among the finest fighters in the world.’ (General Staff 1921, pg. 5)

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Waziristan tribes are considered ‘the best umpires in the world as they seldom allow a tactical error to go unpunished’ (General
Staff 1936, pg. 163).

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The Mahsuds, in particular, are considered ‘tougher, spiritually and physically than even Afridis, Orakzais or Yusufzais’ (O.
Caroe, personal communication)

 

[cleverrider]

The Army of the Indus, comprising 20,000 soldiers and twice that number of camp followers, had set off in the spring of 1839 to fight in the First Afghan War. It was January 13, 1842, and the 30-year-old Scot was all that remained of the British force that had invaded Afghanistan three years earlier. When a rescue party reached him, they found a shadow of a man, his head sliced open, his tattered uniform heavily bloodstained.

He seemed more dead than alive but, when asked ‘Where is the Army?’, Assistant Surgeon William Brydon managed to reply: ‘I am the Army.

(Sorted out by me From an article)

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

About the people of this area Sir Herbert says, "the Marwat descend from the pure and nice generation of the trans-Indus area, tall, stout, handsome, candid with rosy cheeks generally. These entire features are due to their pure and nice Afghan origin and probably this is the reason that they are very dignified and generous and meet the strangers with great courtesy, They are very generous towards their woman folk as compared to the other tribes of Pathans"

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

The same guy made fun of others when we were talking about "martial race" theory presented by the british ...is now hes posting quotes from the colonials.... interesting to say the least.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

H.W . Bellew says, "The Afridies are without doubt the same Aparyata of Herodotus; both name and the positions are identically the same."

H.W . Bellew says, "The Afridies are without doubt the same Aparyata of Herodotus; both name and the positions are identically the same."

 

[RangerPK]

The same guy made fun of other when we were talking about "martial race" theory presented by the british and now hes posting quotes from the colonials.... interesting to say the least.

It's like stereotyping a race, but if you come across negative stereotypes which you don't like, that would be wrong and racist...and would suddenly go into victim hood....

Stereotyping is a double edge sword.. I guess...

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

H.W. Bellow says about Afridis that;

"His manliness is at once apparent, and his proverbial hospitality, courtesy, courage, cheerfulness and loyalty makes him an excellent companion, and a valuable soldier and entitle him to respect and admiration."