About Jalabad....

[IamDZJ]

i haven't had the opportunity to live in any other of the provinces in afghanistan asides from kabul but depending on the very fond childhood memories that i have treasured for myself of the very few visits that we paid to nangrahar back in the days, i would simply and very easily place nangrahar second to heaven. there is something very warm and welcoming about nangrharies...

[khashayar]

^thanks

[Toramana]

i haven't had the opportunity to live in any other of the provinces in afghanistan asides from kabul but depending on the very fond childhood memories that i have treasured for myself of the very few visits that we paid to nangrahar back in the days, i would simply and very easily place nangrahar second to heaven. there is something very warm and welcoming about nangrharies...

Nice---then it is definitely a place to visit...

[Toramana]

I have met some Pashais. To me, they were like Pashtuns speaking Pashto and with Pashtun values. However, some of them spoke Pashai amongst themselves.

I think I can distinguish between Uzbaks, Hazaras, and Tajaks or Parsiwans. The distinctive mark is, Tajaks or Parsiwans have sharp features, whereas the rest have slightly flat features.

I think Tajaks/Parsiwans (or may be they should be called Kabulis) are more urbanized. In Peshawar and Pukhtunkhwa, they lived in urban localities as a self-confined and exclusive comunity not mingling with locals. This is rather strange that despite living in Peshawar or Pukhtunkhwa togethor for almost 3 decades, the two groups couldn't build deeper relations. Probably, they i.e. the Tajaks didn't feel comfortable interacting with the local population, which despite being relatively more literate, had kind of conservative and rural outlook (urban attitude doesn't come with education alone). It is also a fact that the local population considered them too open for local traditions to come to terms to.

However, I found some cases, where they had inter-married with Kharyan (Hindko-speaking people). I also met some Tajaks/Parsiwanans (with one of them over a sufficiently a long period of time) that were very fluent in Urdu and preferred to talk to us in Urdu. But that is understandable.

[ScimitarXEdge]

Thanks Laila. I used to buy maste from a shop owned by a Jalalabadi...He was fluent in Pashto but would talk in Dari to his kids. He told me he is Dari speaker and from some place in Nangarhar..(Surkhud or something)...I wanted to know about Jalalabad...

On way to Kabul, I passed through Jalalabad and had lunch there but didn't roam around much.

You must mean Sarobi; did you meet DZJ's dad or something?

[ScimitarXEdge]

No I speak Mandarin, of course I speak Pashtu, what language would I be speaking? Incase you want to know... no I am not a Farsiwan Pashtun, I know there are some or a few, not all Pashtun in and around Kabul speak Dari. You know majority Kabul districts are Pashtun, only city is Dari speaking majority. Za zeega Pashtu khabari kum!

you must be from Paghman then.

[Toramana]

You must mean Sarobi; did you meet DZJ's dad or something?

Hahaha DZJ would not like this crude joke.

[ScimitarXEdge]

Hahaha DZJ would not like this crude joke.

LOL, well she's from sarobi, I don't see why she'd be offended.