Our family bloodline is ethnic Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir. Punjabi replaced the dying language as our family migrated to the rest of Pakistan. People have false notion that people who speak punjabi are punjabi. It is just language that replaces another language. We are speaking english right now but that does not make us british english, does it?
But it is true Punjabi have great rich history. For starter, Azad Kashmir owes their freedom to the Pakistani army dominated by punjabis.
Even Pathans i know who migrated
to punjabi region in Pakistan has adopted punjabi as their primary language. So Pashto is unheard in their family now. Things change in life.
You are welcome. It is true ethno-linguistically and ethno-geographically one can be Punjabi, but ethno-racially Pashtun or Pakhtun.
Malyars are Pakhtun/Pashtun and this is confirmed by the Yousafzai, Ahmadzai, etc. Pashtuns of Afghanistan. I have mentioned them in my book.
Some Malyars have intermarried so they look different. Some do not know about their culture. Well if they came to India during Mahmud of Ghazni's time, that is one thousand years ago. So that can happen.
I am a British Jammuite Pakhtun and from the Malyar/Malyarzai/Malyarzoi tribe.
We speak quite a lot of Pashto in Pahari. One of my friends from the Bangash Pashtun tribe said to me that he wants to learn Pashto from me because I speak Old Pashto.
I look Pashtun according to many Pashtuns from Yousafzai, Bangash, and other tribes. My paternal and maternal grandfather looked Pashtun and a lot of my relatives do. A Pashtun from the Ahmadzai tribe said to me that my maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother look Pashtun.
I have collected more than 100 Pashtun family names which I will publish later. I will state one " Sakali" and that was the name of my great great grandfather and in Pashto it means tranquilty, peace, and happiness.
I and other Pashtun brothers are promoting Pashtun culture such as its language and history. One Pashtun brother is Moxet Khan who states on his Pashtun website that Malyar/Malyarzai/Malyarzoi are Pashtun and reside in Afghanistan, Peshawar, Potohar Plateau and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
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Our family bloodline is ethnic Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir. Punjabi replaced the dying language as our family migrated to the rest of Pakistan. People have false notion that people who speak punjabi are punjabi. It is just language that replaces another language. We are speaking english right now but that does not make us british english, does it?
But it is true Punjabi have great rich history. For starter, Azad Kashmir owes their freedom to the Pakistani army dominated by punjabis.
Even Pathans i know who migrated to punjabi region in Pakistan has adopted punjabi as their primary language. So Pashto is unheard in their family now. Things change in life.
Some evidence of Malyar/Maliar being Pashtoon:
1)
http://thepashto.com/pashtoons-tribes.php
Type "Malyar" in the search box.
2) Check the term "Malyar" in any Pashto dictionary.
3) Type "Malyar Pashtun Facebook" in Google and see many Pashtuns with the surname "Malyar". One such is Jamal Malyar Pashtoon.
4) Maliar or Malyar is the same, just different transliteration. Pyar is written piar in English transliteration of Awankari.
5) Ask other Pashtuns about the Malyar tribe, especially those Pashtuns from Afghanistan.
There is quite a lot of evidence and it suffices. Thanks