Pashtuns , world's most democratcic and egalitarian people

[Smarty]

In truth, the Pathans are of all the people in this world the most democratic, the least subject to authority, the most independent. Physically they are one of the finest races created by God; and with them the spirit of freedom and independence amounts to a ruling passion. They are not only intolerant of foreign dominion, but yield scarcely any obedience to their own chiefs. They have none of the Celtic reverence, if such there really be, but rather the Saxon individuality. Elphinstone well describes their popular system of representation, the Jeergas of Clans, and the Sub-Jeergas of Sub-Clans, their allegiance to the community and not to the chief. To him I must refer you for particulars. It is to be feared, however, that even the popular assemblies exercise a very imperfect power. To a great degree, every man is a law to himself, and blood feuds, attended with great loss of life, are chronic among the people. Elphinstone explains their habits and manners, and the difference between the western and the eastern tribes; the former being more pastoral and perhaps also somewhat more amenable to rule; most of the latter purely agricultural, perhaps we might rather say horticultural, and democratic in the extreme.
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution - Royal United Service Institution - Google Books

[Khostai]

-_- yeah right