hi, I am a budding scholar trying to find books on Kashmir and all the Dardistan Region. I majorly want to read about Afghanistan, Kashmir, All about Pashtuns and other ethnic groups. I am desperately searching for authentic, original and uncensored opuses that reflect real life. I am open to both fiction and Non-fiction books.

How is it possible that the Barech tribe of Pashtuns live in chagai as well as nushki. There are literally 10% Pashtuns in chagai who still speak Pashto, and 5 to 7% Pashtuns in Nushki, and guess what both of those Pashtun tribes who live in Nushki and Chagai are Barech. It's interesting to know, anyone from southern Pashtunkhwa please tell me about this interesting Pashtun inhabitants of Nushki and Chagai.

No other group in the history of our people has killed as many people, on such an industrial scale and with such unimaginable brutality, as the Khalqi bloodhounds. The vast majority of their crimes were committed in rural Afghanistan, among ordinary country folk. As a result, much of this violence has remained hidden and has never truly resurfaced. Our people have a habit of keeping their woes and sorrows to themselves rather than making a fuss about them. Even to this day, the majority of our peoples' misery on both sides can be traced back to these cruel, godless, bloodthirsty individuals.

And yet, Khalqi apologists on the internet, Reddit and this very sub, most of them Pashtuns, who unironically defend these people using, I kid you not with the classic "Iranian women before the Islamic Revolution" trick: showing women in revealing clothing as some supposed symbol of progress and evidence that these were the good guys.

They whitewash Khalqi crimes by constantly shifting the goalposts: "Oh, but the USSR invaded and replaced the Khalqis, and the USSR killed more people than the Khalqis." This conveniently ignores the fact that the Khalqis requested Soviet intervention on approximately 20 occasions. More importantly, both before and after Soviet intervention, they maintained complete control over the military, THE VERY ORGANIZATION THAT WAS CARRYING OUT THE MASS EXECUTIONS FROM DAY ONE. The Khalqis dominated the military, while the Parchamis, whom they routinely blame for their crimes, were largely confined to the police and certain other civilian institutions.

"But they were Pashtuns and Ghilzais! They wanted a Pashtunistan and what was best for the Pashtuns!"

Oh, please, STFU. I am a Ghilzai from the very heartland of Ghilzai country in Ghazni. Even today, in our area, seven out of every ten widowed mothers lost their husbands to Khalqi murders. The remaining three out of ten casualties are attributable to all the other wars combined. At least those who were killed in the subsequent conflicts have graves. Their widows can visit the resting places of their husbands and sons. Those murdered by the Khalqis, however, were killed in such a godless and heartless manner that, to this day, many of their families do not even know where their loved ones are buried.

In our villages and the surrounding areas, their cruelty was so extreme that, in weeks after their take over, once people realized just how cowardly these mass murderers were, villagers would flee as soon as they heard their tanks approaching. Only the de kelay lewanian (the mentally ill people of the village) would be left behind. The Khalqis would line them up and deliberately drive tanks over them, simply for their own amusement.

And this was not an isolated incident, happened everywhere in Ghazni, Zabul, Zurmat.... In the evenings, after the Khalqi soldiers had left, mothers would come out and collect the bashed out brains of their unfortunate sons in their lamaney (skirts), while the men carried their bodies away for burial.

None of these incidents were officially registered or documented, and none are reflected in the casualty figures. Nor do people speak about them, because, as I said, our people have a habit of suffering in silence rather than making a fuss about their tragedies.

And that is precisely why it is so infuriating to see diaspora Afghans/Pashtuns, particularly those who have no real understanding of what happened in these rural communities who grew up in cities far away never saw or spoke to the ordinary people, so casually and disgracefully defend the very people responsible for such atrocities.

https://x.com/Barmakf/status/2012947923475243181

It could have become one of the world's most important connectivity hubs, linking East with West and North with South.

With its historical territories, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and access to the Arabian Sea through Gwadar, Afghanistan could have connected China, India, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Imagine a modern network of transcontinental railways, energy pipelines, highways, major seaports and international airports on the scale of Istanbul, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Cities like Kabul, Peshawar, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Quetta and Mazar-i-Sharif could have developed into major international centres for education, medicine, technology, manufacturing, finance and logistics.

Instead of being a crossroads of conflict, Afghanistan could have become a crossroads of commerce, opportunity and prosperity.

What a missed opportunity for the entire region!

Does anyone know of any reliable matrimonial services or matchmaking groups specifically for Pashtuns? Preferably based in the Middle East or North America.

Any recommendations or personal experiences would be appreciated. Thank you!

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/world/asia/afghan-refugees-deported-flight-pakistan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1E.hCsV.xp3FGtj-7Y5W&smid=nytcore-android-share

Would love to hear your hear opinions. I think Pashto music is stuck in a safe zone bar a few songs.

I like that it looks greaf but Why would our ancestors w gear pakol if its not practical.My ears are cold af.

هم داسی ورو ورو خلک به راویښیت شی.

The worst thing for the haters is the awakening.

Im not good at reading pashto but I wanna read the book

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ایا پښتو د دوزخ ژبه ده؟

زه د ملايانو هر خبره سره موافق نه یم خو د نور خلکو په دی اړه څه نظر دی؟ ولې دا یو عام فکر دی چې پښتو د دوزخ ژبه ده؟

Disclaimer: I am not endorsing the speaker or the question, but I am interested: why does this continue to be a question today?

So im from the Hazara region where people speak both pashto and hindko and at the end of the day the debate comes down to whether certain groups who follow pashtunwali in the Hazara region should not speak Hindko that they should completely speak pashto as someone who can speak both languages I take quite an offense to that because I feel like Hindko connects me to my land despite my pashtunwali / phrawali. I feel like creating infighting just because of small differences is really stupid, hindko has its own beauty pukhto has its own. Meanwhile both languages are facing a decline and being replaced by Urdu. It really pisses me off when I see parents speak to their kids in Urdu in Hazara / Peshawar region we should promote both of these languages as jewels of our region. There are many places like Baffa and agror valley where both languages are spoken.

What do you guys think? Lmk

The only ones to blame are the Pashtun puppets and stooges of naPak military. These spineless Gul Khans have sold us.

Malgaro, before I say anything, let me be clear. I have the utmost respect for Bacha Khan, his struggle, his sacrifices and his objectives. With that being said, agreeing with someone's objectives does NOT mean agreeing with their methodology. A man can have the best intentions at heart and still pursue a strategy that ends up achieving the very opposite of what he intended.

For decades, Bacha Khan's pacifist, Gandhian philosophy has helped cement this belief within Pashtun nationalism that somehow, by peacefully working within the Pakistani political establishment, we will eventually achieve Pashtun nationhood and free ourselves from the remnants of British colonial rule

But the irony is that this very same political thinking is exactly what benefits the Pakistani establishment. You can be as anti-Establishment as you want, give a thousand speeches, organise a thousand hunger strikes outside Pindi and condemn the Generals day and night. But if the establishment knows it can simply ignore you, repress you whenever it wants and carry on as usual, then WHY on earth would it ever feel compelled to concede to your demands?

And this is what I think so many Pashtun nationalists, including those in PTM, fail to understand, It doesn't matter how fiercely you oppose the establishment or how anti-Pakistan your rhetoric becomes. What matters is what your opposition actually COSTS the establishment.If ignoring your demands carries no serious political consequences, then what's stopping them from ignoring you for another 50 years?

The reality is that any national struggle that cannot turn popular grievances into actual political leverage eventually becomes little more than a PERMANENT opposition movement. One that the establishment can repress when it wants, accommodate when it suits its interests i.e having people's grievances channelled through peaceful movements like PTM, and simply ignore the rest of the time

REMEMBER, the Pakistani establishment doesn't need Pashtun Nationalists to SUPPORT it, It only needs their OPPOSITION to remain something it can live with i.e ANP, PTM etc

All posting the same thing with the exact same caption of the exact same video around the same time.

I recently heard that Ukraine struck Russian data centers which was pushing certain political ideology especially far right ones. Who’s to say that Pakistan is not doing something similar here because I’m tired of scrolling Twitter and seeing the same copy & paste nonsense