Is Afghani culture same as Pakistani culture?

[pakdefender]

Pakistan's culture is its own , it is not indian

women in Pakistan dont wear dot on their head like indian women do , men dont wear tang pajama and nehru cap , we can slaughter as many cows as we want , its a useful animal and not a god for us. Our food has more meat and less spices compared to indian food. Our folk stories Rawal-Jugni , Sohni Mahiwal are our folk stories not indian , our folk songs and dances are ours not indian. We praise Allah in our calligraphic art , in our poems and in every day life , put it simply our cluture is not indian culture.

Jinnah and Iqbal were not like Nehru and Gandhi , they were worlds apart and so are india and Pakistan , so indian members should shut their traps and not talk rubbish that Pakistani culture is indian culture.

 

[Multani]

No point. Some Pakistani's take absurd amounts of pains in trying to wish it away.


Yes. And North Indian culture is Indian culture, South Indian culture is Indian culture, East Indian and North East India is also Indian culture. All of them are vast swathes of land, not small areas.

Pakstani culture is essentially Punjabi and Sindhi culture simply because of the fact that Punjab is the center of gravity in Pakistan and its culture. Sindh is the center of economics.

And both these States have common culture with North India. Which is why I said that it is Indian culture.



True.

You don't know Pakistan.

Pakistani Punjabi culture is different to Indian Punjabi. Even Punjabis in Pakistan differ from each other.

The Dera Walas, the Riastis differ from the Majah people. And so do the Pothwaris, Hindkis and so on.

Pakistani culture is essentially quite unique and a bit united throughout the country.

Pakistan's culture is its own , it is not indian
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yes, you nailed it. I am quite surprised that there are indians here for years, and they still don't know Pakistan,. Makes me wonder what have they been doing here for all this time?

Pakistani culture is very unique. Their ideas and unity is not know to these indians commenting.

 

[Saiful Islam]

Some Punjabis look very Afghan/Iranic looking and could pass as a Afghani easily. I've seen so many Punjabis and Kashmiris who look Iranic, they have Iranic features. Thick eyebrows, aquiline nose, high bridge etc. Pakistan is a true example of a melting pot, Indic and Central Asian culture. Who said multiculturalism doesn't work?

 

[Contrarian]

You don't know Pakistan.
Pakistani Punjabi culture is different to Indian Punjabi. Even Punjabis in Pakistan differ from each other.
The Dera Walas, the Riastis differ from the Majah people. And so do the Pothwaris, Hindkis and so on.
Pakistani culture is essentially quite unique and a bit united throughout the country.

Have you heard the phrase 'baal ki khaal'.
Because thats exactly what you are doing.

People change every 100 kms and language changes every 5. Thats a saying too.
So there are differences between culture's of people of Indian Punjab as well.

That is something very separate from a broad stroke of what we call anthropologically 'culture'. There is a reason these are called 'Indic cultures'.

Pakistani Punjab and Sindh are of Indic culture, while KPK and Balochistan are not. But since Pakistani culture is essentially and majorly that of Sindh and Punjab, we can easily call Pakistani culture as a whole as an Indic culture.

EDIT: All this without even counting the millions of muhajirs who migrated from other states of India.

yes, you nailed it. I am quite surprised that there are indians here for years, and they still don't know Pakistan,. Makes me wonder what have they been doing here for all this time?
Pakistani culture is very unique. Their ideas and unity is not know to these indians commenting.

Oh yeah.
We know nothing. Pakistan is very 'unique'

 

[Multani]

Have you heard the phrase 'baal ki khaal'.
Because thats exactly what you are doing.

People change every 100 kms and language changes every 5. Thats a saying too.
So there are differences between culture's of people of Indian Punjab as well.

That is something very separate from a broad stroke of what we call anthropologically 'culture'. There is a reason these are called 'Indic cultures'.

Pakistani Punjab and Sindh are of Indic culture, while KPK and Balochistan are not. But since Pakistani culture is essentially and majorly that of Sindh and Punjab, we can easily call Pakistani culture as a whole as an Indic culture.

Oh yeah.
We know nothing. Pakistan is very 'unique'

You don't know Pakistan and Pakistani culture. Shame.

 

[Contrarian]

You don't know Pakistan and Pakistani culture. Shame.

Sure

 

[Commander T]

Pakistani culture - which basically means Pakistani Punjabi and Sindhi is largely Indian. There are few differences.


They look the same to everyone in the world except Pakistani's
Any North Indian can pass off as a Pakistani and any Pakistani can pass off as a North Indian.

Pakistani's though in their insecurity need to show themselves as 'different from India'

And what culture exactly India has? ...punjabi, rajhistani, gujrati, maharashtari, utter pardeshi or east indian or something else......stop calling everything indian....except that these all above mentioned states have their own culture and traditions..........but you can make yourself happy by calling it indian....you are a serious joke, i mean you will find no other group on this planet who begs other nations to call their culture as "their collective one cultue"..lolx........and for an outsider, if he is familiar with SE asians he can easily differtiate Indian and Pakistani.....

 

[Multani]

Have you heard the phrase 'baal ki khaal'.
Because thats exactly what you are doing.

People change every 100 kms and language changes every 5. Thats a saying too.
So there are differences between culture's of people of Indian Punjab as well.

That is something very separate from a broad stroke of what we call anthropologically 'culture'. There is a reason these are called 'Indic cultures'.

Pakistani Punjab and Sindh are of Indic culture, while KPK and Balochistan

This indian, who has been here for almost 9 years, still has no idea about the culture in Balochistan, despite us posting thousands of photos of Baloch here on pdf.

I will not go through the details of the similarities between the Baloch, Sindhi, and South Punjabsi. But I am sure someone from Sibi, Hub, Mastang, Kalat, etc, would know what I am talking about.

Makes me wonder, that some of these Indians are really astonishingly people.

 

[Contrarian]

And what culture exactly India has? ...punjabi, rajhistani, gujrati, maharashtari, utter pardeshi or east indian or something else......stop calling everything indian....except that these all above mentioned states have their own culture and traditions..........but you can make yourself happy by calling it indian....you are a serious joke, i mean you will find no other group on this planet who begs other nations to call their culture as "their collective one cultue"..lolx........and for an outsider, if he is familiar with SE asians he can easily differtiate Indian and Pakistani.....

Try googling a term - Indic culture.
And try to write better - use sentences and paragraphs. You look like a teen not quite over his instant msging 'dayz'

This indian, who has been here for almost 9 years, still has no idea about the culture in Balochistan, despite us posting thousands of photos of Baloch here on pdf.

I will not go through the details of the similarities between the Baloch, Sindhi, and South Punjabsi. But I am sure someone from Sibi, Hub, Mastang, Kalat, etc, would know what I am talking about.

Makes me wonder, that some of these Indians are really astonishingly people.

It has been an observation that Pakistani's generally are either oblivious to what does not suit or deliberately ignore it.
I did say KPK and Balochistan dont have Indic culture. But Pakistan as a whole is overwhelmingly Punjabi and Sindhi because Punjab is the cultural and political center of Pakistan and Sindh the economic center of Pakistan.

Basically East of Indus is Indic culture.

 

[M. Sarmad]

@Multani @pakdefender

why so insecure ?? My grand father was born in India (most probably yours too) and he was a proud Indian for most of his life until he became a proud Pakistani . But he did not have to change his culture , language , customs etc. to become a Pakistani . One day he woke up and he was a Pakistani !!

And there are more Muslims in India than Pakistan . We share with them , the things you are talking about (dress, eating habits etc.) . Now would you say that they are not Indians and their culture is Pakistani ??

 

[Contrarian]

why so insecure ?? My grand father was born in India (most probably yours too) and he was a proud Indian for most of his life until he became a proud Pakistani . But he did not have to change his culture , language , customs etc. to become a Pakistani . One day he woke up and he was a Pakistani !!

And there are more Muslims in India than Pakistan . And we share with them , the things you are talking about (dress, eating habits etc.) . Now would you say that they are not Indians and their culture is Pakistani ??

They share all those with Hindus and Christians and Sikhs and Budhists of North India as well.
Unless another ones comes and gives another gem like how Pakistani's use less spices in their meals and that makes the food totally different and hence a different culture.

The idiocy gets mind boggling at times(not referring to you though @Azlan Haider ).

 

[A Town]

Pakistan's culture is its own , it is not indian

women in Pakistan dont wear dot on their head like indian women do , men dont wear tang pajama and nehru cap , we can slaughter as many cows as we want , its a useful animal and not a god for us. Our food has more meat and less spices compared to indian food. Our folk stories Rawal-Jugni , Sohni Mahiwal are our folk stories not indian , our folk songs and dances are ours not indian. We praise Allah in our calligraphic art , in our poems and in every day life , put it simply our cluture is not indian culture.

Jinnah and Iqbal were not like Nehru and Gandhi , they were worlds apart and so are india and Pakistan , so indian members should shut their traps and not talk rubbish that Pakistani culture is indian culture.

You are confusing religion with culture.

 

[Commander T]

Try googling a term - Indic culture.
And try to write better - use sentences and paragraphs. You look like a teen not quite over his instant msging 'dayz'


It has been an observation that Pakistani's generally are either oblivious to what does not suit or deliberately ignore it.
I did say KPK and Balochistan dont have Indic culture. But Pakistan as a whole is overwhelmingly Punjabi and Sindhi because Punjab is the cultural center and Sindh the economic center of Pakistan.

Basically East of Indus is Indic culture.

hahaha........have you ever heard about a language named "Hindustani" .......l mean urdu, hindi, punjabi, marathi etc but you would have never heard of hindustni...but there is a language named hindustani written by an indian like you on wikipedia....
"Hindustani (Hindustani: हिन्दुस्तानी, ہندوستانی[a][6]), historically also known as Hindavi, Dehlvi, Urdu, and Rekhta, is thelingua franca of North India and most of Pakistan"...........Wah....kya bat he...
Hindustani language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
now even a kid knows that these are the old names of Urdu but some indians like you go on wikipedia type forums and write and edit articals like this, trying to combine urdu and hindi so that hindi can be saved a useless try......
"Languages do not originate overnight, they take centuries to evolve and develop, similarly it took about 5 to 6 centuries to standardize grammatical structure of urdu. Origin of Urdu is traced back to the mid of 10th and beginning of 11th century, but these were the formative years of Urdu language and no significant either literary or grammatical work was done during this period; in the initial years of its birth it was only used as a communication lingo. This hybrid language was called ‘ Hindvi ‘ or ‘ Dehlvi ‘ and was written in ‘ Devnagri ‘ Script. Later on in 14th century this language was introduced in Southern India (Hyderabad Deccan), here also the vocabulary of hindvi expanded many words and idioms of local languages were embedded. People start calling this new version of language spoken in Southern India as ‘ Deccani ‘ . The expansion of vocabulary continued and it changed from ‘ Deccani ‘ to ‘ Rekhta ‘ , and this Rekhta is believed to be the forerunner of modern Urdu language. The standardization of Rekhta(Urdu) took place in 16th and 17th century during the reign of Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb Alamgir, when synthetic character of Urdu acquired a complete form and greater content and power.


Like most other languages of the world, Urdu also started its literature through poetry."
now your friend, who edit that artical just because it was showing that urdu has 490 million speakers and hence the 3rd biggest language he ran towards urdu language artical and destroyed it.....hence destroying the credibility of wikipedia. pathatic.....

You are confusing religion with culture.

lolx......go get some knowledge kid...

 

[A Town]

lolx......go get some knowledge kid...

Explain how I should instead of making generic statements.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

Are we talking about Afghani culture or Pashtun culture before comparing it with Pakistani culture? Pashtuns , uzbek, hazara, tajik etc in Afghanistan have different culture and traditions. Pakistan also have variety i .e Kashmiri, Punjabi, balochi, sindhi, tribal areas, pashtuns, Kalsh etc are all different in many things but also have similarities because of having same religion. I mean our cultural religious festival are same, our food is halal and most of us eat meat as well and we have same marriage system nikah or walima or death rituals . We dont drink wine and daroo and sari is also not common etc.

Indian Punjabi have some similarities with Pakistani Punjabi because of same languages and same vegetarian foods. same could be said about Afghani pahstuns and Pakistani pashtuns but pashtuns also have different culture. If you go to tribal ares of Pakistan you will see that their ways of life are different than those who are living in sawat or kohat ,swabi. Some are more conservative than others. Pakistani pashtuns have mixed different words of urdu in their pashtu language while Afghan speak pure Pakhtu.