Pashtun’s the son’s of Great Ahmad Shah baba father of the Nation, respectable, honorable great emperor Ahmadsha Abdali, Pashtun’s the son’s Sultan (sovereign) Mahmud Ghaznavi, Pashtun’s the son’s of Sher Shah Suri and the soldiers of Imam Mehdi. Pashtun’s the Rulers of Durani Empire and Kushani Empire the defeaters of Greek, Mongol, British and Russian’s, the conquerors of Mashad, Delhi and Punjab the winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Anglo wars, and Maiwand the war to remember. A Pashtun love fighting but hates to be a soldier loves music but has contempt for the musician he is kind and gentle but hates to show it loves his new rifle and his old wife hot blooded hot headed poor and proud with strange principles Pakhto پښتو , Pashto, Pukhto, Pushto all same names to a Phenomenon: Pashto is a miracle in its own nature, it’s a name of a Tribe, name of Nation, name of a big rule, name of a culture, name of a custom, name of a great spirit, name of courage, school of law and a court of justice, a bravery lesson, challenge to the world, and answer to all challenges. Paktaves? (Pashto) the word written in the roman sky, Pashto the graveyard of Alexander’s great army, Pashto the concrete wall against the Mongols, Pashto a punch on the face of British colonial reign , and Pashto the Russian army ’s nightmare. We Pashtuns/Pakhtuns have different names around the world: 1) We call ourselves Pakhtuns/Pashtuns 2) Indians & Punjabis call us Pathan 3) Persians call us Afghani 4) Western call us Taliban 5) Arabs call us Mujahideen The Pukhtunwali (the Way of the Pukhtuns): The Pukhtunwali is an inflexible ethical code by which all true Pashtun’s traditionally abided. Pukhtunwali requires that every insult be revenged and, conversely, every guest protected. To safeguard his honor, or the honor of his family or clan, a Pashtun’s will sacrifice everything, including his money and his life. He will return even the slightest insult with interest. Dialogue between Russian soldier and a Pashtun ( Russian General in 1987): Samad: It is called Pashtunwali. Its the code of honor. Koverchenko: Pashtunwali? Samad: Three obligations. First, Melmastia, hospitality. Second, Badal, revenge. Third, Nanawateh, the obligation to give sanctuary to all those who ask. Koverchenko: To all? Samad: All. Koverchenko: Even the enemy? Samad: All. Koverchenko: What if I kill your brother and you came for Badal, revenge? And I ask for Nanawateh? Samad: Then I would be obligated to feed, clothe and protect you. Koverchenko: Thats incredibly civilized. Maulana Abdul Star Khan: A Pathan is a Muslim 1st and Muslim last A.H.Jahaney: Pashtoon Are Born To Rule. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan): “Pukhtoon with love will accompany you to the hell but with force not even to the heaven” I have one great desire. I want to rescue these gentle, brave, patriotic people from the tyranny of the foreigners who have disgraced and dishonored them. The only thing well every agree on is that we will never agree on anything.” Ghani Khan: Pashtun might be a loving friend or a deadly enemy. A Pashtun violent nature, strong body and tender heart make a very unstable combination for living, but an ideal one for poetry, love and color. Pashtun is not merely a race but, in fact, a state of mind; there is a Pashtun lying inside every man, who at times wakes up and overpowers him. The Pashtuns are a rain-sown wheat: they all came up on the same day; they are all the same. But the chief reason why I love a Pashtuns is that he will wash his face and oil his beard and perfume his locks and put on his best pair of clothes when he goes out to fight and die. Sara Afridi: Some people spend all their lives trying to be perfect... others are just born Pashtun. S.Iftikhar Hussain: Women in Pashtun society enjoy more security in every respect than their sisters in other South Asian societies. The lady of the house is virtual queen in her domain and many fire-breathing male members of the family are at their best behavior in front of the older females especially grandmothers and aunts. the Pashtun women are formidable characters, which they have to be for survival in an unforgiving environment The first President of Afghanistan Gen Daoud Khan: We will never allow you to dictate to us how to run our country and whom to employ in Afghanistan. How and where we employ the foreign experts will remain the exclusive prerogative of the Afghan state. Afghanistan shall remain poor, if necessary, but free in its acts and decisions. Abdur Rahman Khan: The first and most important advice that I can give to my successors and people to make Afghanistan into a great kingdom is to impress upon their minds the value of unity; unity, and unity alone, can make it into a great power. Mahatma Gandhi on Pashtuns: Yours is the true non-violence, it is the non-violence of the strong, not the non-violence of the weak and starving. Alexander wrote a letter to his mother: While in fight with pakhtuns in arachosia (now kandahar) and said, I am involved in the land of leonine (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldiers. You have brought only one son into the world but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. In the book Lost Tribes from Assyria by A Avihail: The Pathans are known for their physical strength. They are tall, light-coloured and handsome, good soldiers and for the most part bear arms from a young age. They are diligent and intelligent, faithful to an exemplary degree and are known in the world as outstanding hosts. Colonel Buster Goodwin stationed for twenty years on the Frontier expresses his feelings about Pashtuns this way: Our dealing with Pashtuns was a gentlemans game. No matter how poor a Pashtun was, he might meet the King of England or the Viceroy of India but hed look him in the eye and shake hands with him as if to say, Im as good a man as you are. Edward E. Oliver on Pashtuns: The Pathan is undoubtedly brave to rashness, sets no value upon life, either his own or anyone elses. Trained from youth to feats of strength, endowed with wonderful power of endurance, he commands the most Englishmen. Elphinsrone on Pashtuns: The Pathans are fond of liberty, faithful to their friends, kind to their dependents, Hospitable, brave, hardy, frugal, laborious and prudent. A Pakhtun leader once told Elphinstone: We are content with discord; we are content with alarms; we are content with blood; but we never will be content with a master George W. Gilbertson in the preface to First Pukkhtoo Book (1901) says: He (a Pathan) is withal a proud man, prone to meet scorn with scorn, and ever ready to return blow for blow. Pride of race, consciousness of natural rights and intolerance of injustice are the remarkable traits of the Pakhtun character. George W. Gilbertson in the preface to First Pukkhtoo Book (1901) says: his is not the race to be despised and crushed by brute-force, although, perchance, this is the only force of which he has conscious knowledge. Rather should we un-remittingly strive towards knowing the man as he is, by learning his language; towards making ourselves familiar with him and his surroundings; towards eradicating, slowly but surely, his ignorance and his waywardness, by a treatment, stern but well-considered, just, and in harmony with the religious beliefs, traditions, and customs of his country; withal towards a policy of clemency, encouragement, and protection; of paternal approbation; not of discouragement and extermination. H.W. Bellew on Pashtuns: The pride of the Pashtun is a marked feature of their national character. They eternally boast of their descent, their prowess in arms and their independence and cap it all by am I not a Pashtun. Weighing a Pathan against an Englishman for their valor in The Ballad of East and West, Kipling exclaims: Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at Gods great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, Though they come from the ends of the earth! Dravot, the main character of Rudyard Kiplings The Man Who Would Be King (1891) addresses the Pathans: Youre white people - sons of Alexander - and not like common, black Mohammedans . In Memoirs of a Junior Officer (1951) M.C.A. Henniker, whose company was engaged in building a blockhouse or a miniature fort on a hill-top overlooking the Khyber Pass, writes: A curious thing was the water supply for the Block Houses. This came by a pipe-line laid over the hills from the pumping station below. The pipe could have been easily cut by the Pathans, but this was never done. They considered rules as necessary in warfare as we did. Cutting the water pipes of the Raj would be as immoral as the use by us of poison gas. Sir Winston Churchill on Pashtuns: The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud.... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid. Russian General in 1987: Pashtun’s are the most brave people ever born on the earth, these people can’t be defeated by force. By American Gen in 2004: we are fighting a meaningless war against the rocks. Former Russian commander Gen Ruslan Aushev said to NATO in 2006: You will flee from there. Many have fought in Afghanistan; first and foremost, the British fought there in the 19th century. The astonishing thing today is that Nato and the coalition seem to have learnt nothing, neither from their own experience nor from our experience.The Afghan resistance is, in my opinion, growing. Such behaviour on the part of the intractable Afghans is to my mind understandable. It is conditioned by centuries of tradition geography, climate and religion. We saw over a period of many years how the country was torn apart by civil war… But in the face of outside aggression, Afghans have always put aside their differences and united. Evidently, the coalition forces have also been seen as a threat to the nation By Indian General in siachin war: If there were no NWFP province in Pakistan. I am sure that at least Kashmir was ours we salute Pathanz Pukhtons regard hospitality as a sacred duty and safety of the guest as inviolable, You can give defeat to the pashtun nation but you wont be able to accept the defeat upon them., For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan. According to a Pashtun proverb: He is not a Pashtun who does not give a blow for a pinch.
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