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It is said that the Karlani tribes living mostly in KPK didn't have a strong sense of qaumiyat and would identify by tribe first rather than Pashtun. "Sir Olaf was greatly impressed by Pashtun culture during his tenure with the British government in British India.But he was especially intrigued...

Apparently, it always has been a foreign term for Pashtuns and is the Farsi term for them. I have heard that 'Afghan' turns to 'Awghan' or 'Apghan' in Pashto as the letter f(fay) is not native to it. Similar to how Turks would refer to every Farsi speaker in Khorasan as 'Tazi'(which actually...

What is more interesting is that some Pashtun nationalists were advocating to make a 'Kakaristan' province in North Baluchistan's Pashtun majority areas, which would have been identical to historic Kaikanan. Regarding Kurds, there are 'Sarhadi Kurds' present in Baluchistan and even South Punjab...

Tbh, Afghan as a synonym for Pashtun has lost it's meaning. In modern day Afghanistan, a Tajik, Uzbek or Hazara identifies as Afghan as well. "Prior to the rise of the nation as Afghanistan, it was used by Persian speakers and those influenced by the Persian language to denote the Pashtun...

What do you think about Kakar being derived from Kaikanan, which appears to be the old name for the Suleiman Mountains (possibly along with Kurdan) before being named after the prophet Suleiman? Native Sindhi tribes are collectively called the Sammat, I wonder if their name derives from the...

Also, "According to Kochhar there were three waves of Indo-Aryan immigration that occurred after the mature Harappan phase: the "Murghamu" (Bactria-Margiana Culture) related people who entered Baluchistan at Pirak, Mehrgarh south cemetery, and other places, and later merged with the post-urban...

Sahiras II was a prominent Buddhist king of Sindh during the 7th century AD. The description of his empire at it's greatest extent (circa 642 AD) seems to be almost identical to the boundaries of modern day Pakistan. From the Chachnama - "The limits of his dominions extended on the east to...

I thought you differentiated between Khiljis (Turko-Hepthalites) and Ghilzais (Pashtunized Khiljis). Khiljis of Hindustan were not Pashtunized.

The Swat cemeteries have always been associated with Aryans but I think the burials are different from Kurgan steppe burials. Swat Valley "early Indo-Aryans" at the lab "For a while now I've been hearing rumors that the Reich Lab was working on Late Bronze Age and Iron Age samples from...

Iranians are also racist against Arabs, Turks as well as Kurds, Baluchs etc. of their own country

This guy is the embodiment of the internet Hindutva troll

Do you have a source for these regions (mainly Waziristan) being fully independent during Ghaznavid period?

lol

There's an equivalent, tora/tor jokes (or something) among Pashtuns directed at Punjabis

It's an academic paper from the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, based on a SNP/marker for comparatively lighter skin, nothing to do with working out in the sun. Working out in the sun wont change your genetics or even your features. With regards to Krishna etc., you just need to read your...

I thought you believed that these Pathan jokes were started by Muhajirs in Karachi? I haven't ever heard a Pathan joke in Punjabi.

It's present all over the world

It has got little to do with colonialism. Genotype-Phenotype Study of the Middle Gangetic Plain in India Shows Association of rs2470102 with Skin Pigmentation "Taken together, our findings suggest that the social structure defined by the caste system in India has a profound influence on the...

The period/age (Iron Age/Late Bronze Age) of the site is that of the Rg Vedic one, hence Aryans. Swat features as a very important place in the Rg Veda as well. It's unlikely that it would be an IVC site, given the time period. The researchers also would've mentioned it being an IVC site if it...