In real life its a different story har koi quarter or tenth pathan hai. I can see where you are going with the Kashmiri thing.
Hindkokhwan and "Pahari" are dialects of Punjabi who named them as different languages?
So is saraiki- it's been done since 47 and especially 71 cause if all of them are 1 that's 50-60% of your population
Devide and rule- create more identities means not one is completely dominant
It's for national intergeration reasons, they were never considered different things before 47 and it especially picked up pace after 71 where 60-70% of your pop would be just one group
You had to cut it down in different groups, give them new fake identities so not one group becomes completely dominant or atleast perception should not be as such - this is what power centers did willingly imo
B- cause it's true same with kashmiris and Baloch not just Pashtun(would have happened with sindh but they were Rich and stable historically- that's why you'll find opposite there Sindhi speaking Punjabi clans in Sindh)- every season there's a drought or bad economic conditions, political termoil, civil war entire famlies in Thier 1000s would come for better opportunities, look at the borders and thier demographics especially clan demographics
You'll know exactly what's going on, or you'll understand it more clearly - I know it's laughable but 100-300 years ago they were economic migrants who have assimilated down the generations
Like all people they also feel a certain thing for thier ancestors that's where 1/10th Baloch, Kashmiri, Pashtun comes along
They're not usually technically wrong eventhough it's stupid
Hameed gul types and 1000s others like him, modern day examples are Haris rauf and Ahmad shehzad
I know rural people thier life pretty much revolves around Thier clans, they are very proud of who they're
Afghan nationalists usually pick up the examples of hameed guls of the world and use it for 100 million plus people
