Salman Dawar

Why Punjab is so ahead of other regions of northern Indo-Pak… 👇

Part of what Dr. Sahib-Nazar Moradi has said below, I too have said in this connection: that ostensibly, Nisar Muhammad was a Yusufzai Afghan; but as I have pointed out, the Yusufzais absorbed a large number of Swatis (Tajiks) after their conquest of Swat and Peshawar Valley in the 16th Century -- and at the time that Nisar Muhammad lived (early last century), a lot of these "Yusufzai" people were still aware of their distinct origins. The fact that Nisar Muhammad, who called himself a communist -- did not settle in Tashkent, Ashgabat, Baku, or elsewhere in the Caucasus, or in Moscow or Leningrad -- is itself very significant: that he chose Tajikistan and allied his identity with that Soviet republic till his early death in 1937.... I have yet to probe this matter to my satisfaction, but as I said in another post below yesterday, the results of the work I have conducted into local history tends to show Pashtuns-Afghans in a different light compared to what they think of themselves or how they appear. Things are not at all that easy or direct to pronounce, regarding the origins of many people now regarded offhandedly as Pashtuns, even though a Pashtun would typically like one to believe they were. Even if Nisar Muhammad was a Pashtun, Pashtuns are the residents of eastern Iranshahr and have lived on its peripheries since time immemorial -- living in a state system ruled by Farsi speakers even if the Pashtuns lived in wild autonomy, the zoo that they inhabited was still owned by the Persian state. Even "Afghanistan," founded by the Abdali (Durrani) dynasty as a result of the freak assassination of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747 -- answers the description of a wild tribal empire ruled by a Persianate court, first at Kandahar and then Kabul. The Durranis who style themselves as Pashtuns-Afghans, are still very particular about their Persian culture, and even now the Durrani Saddozai and Barakzai families living in Peshawar and elsewhere in Pakistan, regard Pashto and its tribal culture with an alien condescension. They still speak Persian at home among themselves, albeit with a Pakistani accent, or they speak Urdu. That should be enough proof for our insistent and impudent "Pashtun nationalists."

نثار محمد یوسفی از تاجیکان پشاور است، بر اثر فشار انگلیس ها به بخارا رفت وپس از سقوط بخارا به دوشنبه رفت و در کنار مبارزین تاجیک قرار گرفت. او اگر تاجیک نمی بود شاید به مسکو می رفت یا در تاشکند می ماند. او به مقام وزارت معارف تاجیکستان رسید ونصاب تعلیمی تاجیک را تنظیم کرد.

It feels as if the people of Sindh are treated as less than human, while only Punjab’s rights, lives, and needs matter. This is not just water theft, but a systematic attack on Sindh’s existence, resources, and future 1/2

The martyrdom of Sarang Khan Gakhar by the Suris is well known, but what isn’t is Sarang Khan’s son, Kamal Khan, helping destroy the Suris. Kamal Khan was a commander in the Battle of Jaunpur, crushing the last Suri claimant, Sher Khan (s/o Adil Shah) & erasing the Suri Dynasty.

Election Result of Karachi East in 1977. Hazara's Son Asghar Khan defeated PPP.

“Pashtuns are a majority in Hazara” is a lie spread by Pakhtunkhwa’s intelligentsia to try stifle our movement & keep our people repressed. Hazara’s last tribal census took place in 1931, in which Pashtuns, with a pop. of 54,544, comprised a meagre minority of only 8%.- [1/2]

Just a friendly reminder: Hazara is NOT Pakhtunkhwa.