M. Sarmad
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Pashtuns tribes of Pakistan were clearly in conflict with Mughals- that whole Pashto language of the jinns thing
I'd say it was a bit more complicated than that. The first Mughal invader Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babar, for example, allied with Yusufzais before making his first raid into India in 1519. Yusufzai chief, Malak Ahmed Khan of Swat, agreed to give his granddaughter Bibi Mubarka Yusufzai in marriage to Babur and form a sort of political alliance with the Mughals. Yusufzai soldiers later accompanied Babur during his subsequent invasions of India and in his final victory against Ibrahim Lodhi at Panipat in 1526
Mughals later on fully exploited the never-ending infighting among various Pashtun factions/tribes. The most significant example probably is that of Pir Roshan (an extremely popular Pashtun Sufi, the first Pashtun nationalist who created the Pashto alphabet). A struggle was going on in the Pashtun belt at that time between the followers of unorthodox Pir-e-Roshan and Akhund Darweza (buried in Peshawar) followers. By the standards prevailing today, Pir Roshan was a wajib-ul-qatl heretic who had declared prophethood but the majority of Pashtuns back then were his ardent supporters. Mughal emperors had declared war on the followers of Pir-e-Roshan which ultimately led to the emergence of Akhund Darweza's orthodox Islam as the prominent version/interpretation of Islam in the Pakhtun areas, something that has remained unchanged ever since.