Even it was the case behind the creation of bangla-desh, that our most democratic leader of the history denied the rule to the winners of the elections & instead he said UDHAR tum,IDHAR hum?
We Nationalists will forever be enemies of PPP for what they did in 1971.
But you know what the funny thing is? These same ethno-fascists have continually insulted the Bengalis while being too attached to their own political parties.
ZAB and his protege Yahya were murderers and killers who are primarily responsible for Bangladesh but the thing is those attitudes exist in all of us.
You know many people say "kill altaf" "punish altaf" etc. But can we punish Altaf when my idiot MQM-race of birth is actually supporting him? This is the problem. We know someone is corrupt, we know he is responsible for murder. But can he be tried and hanged for his crimes without alienating the ethno-fascist.
These same people criticize the Bengalis, but the potential of another Bangladesh happening is there and has always been there in fact. Bangladesh actually lies in our mindset.
We Nationalists teach that no matter what form of torture and brutality we are to suffer. We are one. Pakistan will be the first and last thing to escape our lips. Every community claims to be victimized. We are beyond that. Suffering does not mean we give up on Pakistan.
We do not believe in ethnic identities and understand their potential to be directed along anti-Pakistani lines.
He said, when asked about his primary identity, he has been Pashtun for 5000 years, Muslim for 1400 years and Pakistani for 30 years. He simply meant to say that he can have three identities at the same time and doesn't feel necessary to give up one of his identity for another one. Where do you see ethno-centric fascism here?
Sorry I jumbled up the statement...
You have interpreted it completely differently from how almost everyone else sees it, even many Pashtuns who were enraged by the statement.
The most logical explanation of this statement would be that he is Pashtun first, then Muslim, then Pakistani because when I make the common statement that I am Pakistani first second and last and then a Nationalist it means I am. This means ethnic identity comes before National identity. This sounds like an attempt to defend them like Altaf's speech that called the partition the biggest blunder in history.
In either case, my task is to look at the ethnic disturbances in Pakistan. Hopefully I will have a paper ready sometime on the problem and provide possible solutions. We are indeed a very divided Nation voting completely on the basis of race.
Dont be stupid, abdul rab nishter of muslim league was political opponent of khudai khidmatgar, why would ANP shout his name in their rally?. Lalak jan was not a pashtun, he was from northren areas.
And wali khan quote should'nt shock you. There are several pashto proverbs and quotes which would make you say "pata nahi ye pashtun apne aap ko kia samajte hain".
Rehman baba lives in heart of every pashtun. His poetry is more popular in common people than any one. Tell me stupid why a sufi poet like him need to fight against mughals?
Mughals and Afghans were rivals and enemies of each other. Dont meddle in our history and dont try to equate our anti-mughal history to anti-pakistan, as mughal is not equal to pakistan.
I have never stated Mughals are Pakistan and the Pashtun empire Afghan and in several posts I have stated this to be an empirical mistake and a fallacy in one of my posts on another thread. Pakistan is not a state made on the basis of ethnicity. It is therefore very necessary that we accept the culture of each and every ethnic group because that is what makes us rich in culture. Pakistan is not an Urdu-culture and our heroes aren't the heroes of one race. They are the heroes of each ethnic group and race. Iqbal is our hero but so is Rehman Baba.
In fact both the Mughals and many Pashtun empires are Pakistani, even the Duranni Empire on account of 30 million Pashtuns in Pakistan which is twice that of the total Pashtun population of Afghanistan (Durrani being a Pashtun) and being born in Multan so we have a larger right over that history than the bar Pashtun.
I was stating that the rivalry that once existed between Mughals and Afghans is being used to draw historical parallels to the rivalry between Afghanistan and Pakistan (mostly by Afghans) and according to many every Pashtun is an Afghan both ethnically and in the national sense hence a Pashtun cannot be a Pakistani as the (silly) argument is made by Afghans who unfortunately have more than a few supporters from the lar side. Don't say it's a lie. I have seen it on the other forum.
You cant criticized people of KPK for voting for ANP, you cant label us ethnic racist as we have also voted for PPP, PML , MMA. One thing you need to keep in mind that compared to rest of pakistanis, sense of ethnic identity, pashtun nationalism is more pronounced and is normal in our areas. ANP might be some racist , traitor , anti-pakistani party for karachite like you but for a pashtun of KPK it is just another political party like PPP, JUI, JI ,PML.
I did not criticize the people of KPK specifically but criticized the people of Pakistan overall for their attitudes and have specially criticized Urdu-speakers for voting a terrorist in for what 20 or 30 years? I am an ex-nationalist making inroads with the movement again and we are beyond the race issue. But this is a problem. The ethnic problem limits me to making statements on MQM, otherwise its like a person from another race is trying to 'interfere' in another's history even though everyone interprets history in his own way.
No matter how much someone wants to be Pashtun, he can't be because of people like you and toramana.
Anyway when you jail a leader like Bacha Khan just because of divergent views its very likely to cause backlash and its surprising Pashtuns didn't form a separate political identity sooner. It was because of the Nationalism of the Pashtun and his love for Pakistan which has made it them least susceptible to the ethnic card proof being that ANP, PKMAP rarely being elected.
Of course being a "Karachite, like I am I have no right to speak about this, " hence not being one of "us," which makes it right for a self-righteous person like you and the Afghan gang to call me a donkey trying to adopt a human skin, daal-khor and Khar among other beautiful words.
I was not very eager to discuss ethnicity and the pains Nationalists take to escape the bounds of ethnicity. Fun how an ethno-fascist changes when he speaks to a someone from his race and that from another race, in your case even if he is half punjabi and half pashtun? Perhaps you remember that member you and your Afghan counter-parts drove away?
In any case popularity polls show ANP down... PTI in, in Pakhtunkhwa. Always trusted Pashtuns to choose good people.
"I have tried to quit this tortuous, confining skin...
I shed that skin and took a new one...
But shedding my race, shedding my skin...
Is easier said than done in this land...
I was confounded by the problems of old...
So I adopt the Nationalist cry as my heart and soul...
May the Nation and people prosper beyond...
And abandon the confining skin of race...