What is pakistani culture?

[Aamna14]

Pakistani culture is the most amusing topic over Pakistani television, Discussions and net forums. We see a peculiar thing over such discussions that Pakistanis tend to move away from their roots towards Arabs but find no compatibility with Arabs. They tend to suppress the bravery, culture, values, language, and pain of their forefathers and glorify the invaders who destroyed everything of their origin and history. In turn they end up in frustration. To a great extent Gen Zia's rewriting of history is also responsible for this misery. Qasim, Khilji, Gajanvids, Timur, Gauri, Aurangzeb and Islam all have destroyed Pakistans great culture, values and ethics.

Pakistanis lean on to Arabs for a reason i must say even if most people looking from outside in won't agree with it they simply don't understand the dynamics of the country. Culture and religion have a fine blend here and people feel strongly towards their faith and i think people living under democratic rule would understand the need to respect that which people hold dear.

 

[Saleem]

its called agri-culture....

 

[Sugarcane]

Sorry to say but i wud never support unislamic festivals like basant, nowroz or kufr festivals like christmas and dewali to be celebrated at national level rather such festivals shud be banned and strictly prohibited in an islamic country (though non-muslims could celebrate them privately).

Moreover i believe rather than just restrict ourselves to Pakistan and Pakistanis we should think on a global pan-islamic level and appreciate good aspects of every muslim culture whether Arab, Afghan, Turkish, Indian, Bengali or Malaysian etc. If it were possible for me i wud have abolished all these colonialists drawn and imposed boundries and borders which has only sowed the disease of nationalism among muslims and served the colonialists agenda. Ofcourse the rotten nationalistic slogan of "Sab Se Pehlay Pakistan" introduced by maloon accursed Busharraf was not without reason and which the maloon and his cohorts also used as justification for alliance with US on invasion of Afghanistan.

You are free to go to Saudi Kingdom - Pakistan is not fit for you.

 

[RangerPK]

When people say "pakistani culture" what does they mean by it? I am confused about this term. Does Pakistani culture means culture associated with ahal-e-zuban of urdu? or it is sum of cultures of all ethnicities of pakistan and if yes then how does it make any sense?....

I guess...there is no "one""particular Pakistani culture. There is diversity of cultures in Pakistan. Sometimes these cultures merge together , over lap each other, and/or in some cases, conflict with each other....



Allah knows best, If I said anything wrong, then Allah forgive me.

 

[muse]

One thing I hope Pakistani culture adopts is the concept of using the last name of a woman's family and her husbands last name - for instance if a Jabeen Shah marries a Asghar khan, her name becomes Jabeen Shah khan

In this way, both families are represented -- it is absurd that today some women use the first name of their husbands as their last name

 

[jaibi]

When people say "pakistani culture" what does they mean by it? I am confused about this term. Does Pakistani culture means culture associated with ahal-e-zuban of urdu? or it is sum of cultures of all ethnicities of pakistan and if yes then how does it make any sense?....

In sociology a society is differentiated by the legal territory that a nation claims e.g. Pakistani society is the society associated with the peoples residing within the area demaracated as Pakistan. Culture is the sum beliefs, shared practices and artifacts of a people and thus Pakistani culture means the sum of all the various cultures (called sub-cultures) that the people that reside in Pakistan exhibit, not just the Urdu associated culture.

The Urdu-associated culture and the practice of equating it to Pakistani culture is in fact a long held practice by the ruling circles of Pakistan to impose one culture on all the people and stump out the regional cultures. This is wrong, and in no way exhibits Pakistani culture.

 

[RangerPK]

One thing I hope Pakistani culture adopts is the concept of using the last name of a woman's family and her husbands last name - for instance if a Jabeen Shah marries a Asghar khan, her name becomes Jabeen Shah khan

In this way, both families are represented -- it is absurd that today some women use the first name of their husbands as their last name

Doesn't Islam permit a woman to keep her last father's name even after marriage? If so, then I do not see what is stopping them, metropolitan cities are open societies, they probably wont care.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

When people say "pakistani culture" what does they mean by it? I am confused about this term. Does Pakistani culture means culture associated with ahal-e-zuban of urdu? or it is sum of cultures of all ethnicities of pakistan and if yes then how does it make any sense?....

The answer lies here....

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-history-strategy/7650-ancient-history-not-appreciated-pakistanis.html

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Aeronaut's fiance is from a different culture. My cousin just married, a Pashtun girl from Peshawar, We are not discussing weddings here though.

And my fiances father is pashtun and mother is panjabi... beat that bruv...!

 

[RangerPK]

The answer lies here....

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-history-strategy/7650-ancient-history-not-appreciated-pakistanis.html

A lot has happened since Ïndus Vally civilization,

http://www.defence.pk/forums/strategic-geopolitical-issues/254295-history-pakistan.html

History of Pakistan.

BC

Soanian People ~500,000
Mehrgarh Culture 7000–2500
Indus Valley Civilization 3300–1700
Vedic Civilization 2000–500
Achaemenid Empire 550–330
Maurya Empire 322–252
Seleucid Empire 312–63
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom 252–125
Indo-Scythian Kingdom 200 BC–400 AD
Gandhara Civilization 200 BC–1021 AD
Indo-Greek Kingdom 180 BC–10 AD

AD

Indo-Parthian Kingdom 21–130
Kushan Empire 30–375
Sassanid Empire 224–641
Indo-Sassanids 240–410
Gupta Empire 320–600
Hephthalite Empire 420–567
Rai Dynasty 489–632
Kabul Shahi Dynasty 500–1100
Umayyad Caliphate 661–750
Pala Empire 770–850
Ghaznavid Empire 963–1187
Mamluk dynasty 1206–1290
Khilji dynasty 1290–1320
Tughlaq dynasty 1320–1413
Sayyid dynasty 1414–1451
Lodhi dynasty 1451–1526
Mughal Empire 1526–1858
Durrani Empire 1747–1823
Sikh Confederacy 1733–1805
Maratha Empire 1758–1760
Sikh Empire 1799–1849
British Indian Empire 1849–1947
Dominion of Pakistan 1947–1956
Islamic Republic since 1956

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Sorry to say but i wud never support unislamic festivals like basant, nowroz or kufr festivals like christmas and dewali to be celebrated at national level rather such festivals shud be banned and strictly prohibited in an islamic country (though non-muslims could celebrate them privately).

Moreover i believe rather than just restrict ourselves to Pakistan and Pakistanis we should think on a global pan-islamic level and appreciate good aspects of every muslim culture whether Arab, Afghan, Turkish, Indian, Bengali or Malaysian etc. If it were possible for me i wud have abolished all these colonialists drawn and imposed boundries and borders which has only sowed the disease of nationalism among muslims and served the colonialists agenda. Ofcourse the rotten nationalistic slogan of "Sab Se Pehlay Pakistan" introduced by maloon accursed Busharraf was not without reason and which the maloon and his cohorts also used as justification for alliance with US on invasion of Afghanistan.

O paa ji pehlay apnay ghar tou theek kar lou... khilafat baad mein dekh lena!

 

[Arya Desa]

pakistan's culture is anti Indian (as in not Indian) yet is also very much Indian. Too confusing to dwell on. In short, it is what it is, love it, embrace it and add to it.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

pakistan's culture is anti Indian (as in not Indian) yet is also very much Indian. Too confusing to dwell on. In short, it is what it is, love it, embrace it and add to it.

You are contradicting yourself... and no its not "indian culture" and there is no single culture but diverse cultures... which overlap eachother..

 

[muse]

Doesn't Islam permit a woman to keep her last father's name even after marriage? If so, then I do not see what is stopping them, metropolitan cities are open societies, they probably wont care.

Pakistani culture is what we were talking about - now of course since you brought up Izlum, well, I don't know why we should care whether "Islam" permits or not - after all, Islam is about faith in God, not cultural particulars.

For instance, Does Islam permit DNA evidence in cases of Rape?? I'm sure you realize that such evidence can prove or absolve a person suspected of and tried in court for the crime of rape, If Islam does not speak of DNA evidence, are we to imagine that DNA evidence can be said to not exist??

Are telephones allowed by Islam?? How about computers?

 

[Asian.Century]

Is Afghani culture same as Pakistani culture?