Excuse me Wannabe, why you are calling yourself 'Pashtun'? Is Pashto your mother tongue?. Pashtun means a person whose mother tongue is Pashto, yours is Urdu. Now i would have ignored you but you are addressing Pashtuns of Bar Pakhtunkhwa as a 'Pashtun' , creating confusion and misunderstanding. Shaitani sey baaz aaja and have some self-respect .
What a stupidity..... Whats up with this Pashtun blood thing? care to tell us how many milliliters of Pashtun blood is running in your veins?. Have you sprout two wings or two horns or four legs after discovering that you might have few ml of Pashtun blood in you?.......There is nothing in race , we are products of our environment, surroundings and culture. A Pashtun is a Pashtun because he has grown up in a Pashtun society, not because he was born with traits which are usually associated with Pashtuns . Come back to your senses, racist.
So if I was born in a Pukhtoon society and spoke Pushto then I would be a Pukhtoon? I highly doubt that Pukhtoons would consider me a Pukhtoon. Race DOES matter.
If your "mother tongue" is Pashto and all of your family speaks Pashto with each other, then yes you will be considered a Pashtun. A big chunk of Pashto speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are lineage-wise not Pashtuns yet we see them as Pashtuns so do you people. Shahi Syed of ANP for example is not racially a Pashtun, yet how many of you see him as a non-Pashtun?. Race doesnt matter in defining Pashtun identity , its your speaking and doing Pashto which makes you a Pashtun. The "doing" Pashto are the cultural traits that one acquire growing up in a Pashtun household, society and environment.
So how does a non Pukhtoon have Pushto as a mother tongue?
When you are fully integrated into Pashtun nation, not just linguistically but also culturally and it happens in spans of centuries. The ethnic Kashmiris of Peshawar can fluently speak Pashto but they speak Hindko at their homes and are culturally not Pashtuns. Majority of Hindkowans in Peshawar are in fact of Kashmiri descent. I mentioned two things to you "speaking Pashto" and "doing Pashto"...i have already explained to you what "doing Pashto" means......you do not become a Pashtun by learning Pashto in a class.
No they are people indigenous to the city whose ancestors have been residing in the area for millennia, stop portraying them as outsiders!
And Pashtuns are living in Peshawar for last 5000 years ! (sarcasm)
As long as we put Pakistan before our respectives ethnic/linguistic/cultural groups.
Nope. If I had said put Pakistan before Islam, then I would accept your comment. This is watan over ethnic group. (and there are some in Pakistan who do "Watan Parasti" with their ethnic groups but I rarely see them being called out over it, it seems if one wishes to promote Pakistan or improve one becomes an "Watan parast" but should he try to improve the position for his clan or ethnic group even to the detriment of others, he is seen to be working for his community...)
Its love for the soil, country (watan), language (zaban), qaum (ethnicity and citizenship) which is natural.......plunging into herd mentality and blindly saying and doing things like a zombie is side effect of nationalism whether its done in the name of qaum, zaban, religion or watan.
