History of Afghan betrayal , fraud and oppression on Pashtuns

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

lol mate, that has made it even worse, so Pathan is an anglo-saxon name. After reading that i further hate being called a Pathan.

Legacy of British colonization. Actually Pathan is a holdover from them, this is why Indians use it.

We Pakistanis should discourage it in Pakistan. I mean, when we renamed NWFP (long overdue,) we called it Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, not Pathankhwa.

My own Pukhtoon relatives get irritated when they hear it and insist on Pashtoon or Pukhtoon.

It is kind of like how Urdu Speakers hate being called Muhajir, or Punjabis hate Panjab (which is more like how Sikhs spell it.)

 

[Jaggu]

Legacy of British colonization. Actually Pathan is a holdover from them, this is why Indians use it.

We Pakistanis should discourage it in Pakistan. I mean, when we renamed NWFP (long overdue,) we called it Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, not Pathankhwa.

My own Pukhtoon relatives get irritated when they hear it and insist on Pashtoon or Pukhtoon.

It is kind of like how Urdu Speakers hate being called Muhajir, or Punjabis hate Panjab (which is more like how Sikhs spell it.)

The term Pathan may also be Anglo Saxon but Indians have used this term for hundreds of years to denote Afghans. There are writings in India which are over 500 years old which calls Afghans as Pathans.