The mass relocation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan back to Afghanistan means an influx of people who have spent most of their lives in KPK. They have picked up some of the local dialect and they tend to speak like people from Peshawar. These Pashtuns use typical Pakistani vocabulary and their grammar is typically very poor.
This makes people in Afghanistan suspicious. While Tajik fascists call all Pashtuns Pakistani, some nationalists also feel they should be abusive against fellow Pashtuns because of their accent. They accuse them of being Pakistanis who are pretending to be Afghans.
People are disadvantaged in their own country by fellow Pashtuns after having spent all their lives as refugees in Pakistan.
Today I met an Afghan refugee in Holland. He is from Nangarhar and he speaks slightly like people of Peshawar. He told me he was humiliated by an Afghan interpreter during his asylum application. The interpreter was someone who is not familiar with Mashreqi accent and wrongly assumed that the refugee is a Pakistani who is claiming asylum with a fake identity.
I was very upset. I can understand the tensions and hostilities due to political problems. But people are going to extremes to prove how much they hate Pakistan.
This makes people in Afghanistan suspicious. While Tajik fascists call all Pashtuns Pakistani, some nationalists also feel they should be abusive against fellow Pashtuns because of their accent. They accuse them of being Pakistanis who are pretending to be Afghans.
People are disadvantaged in their own country by fellow Pashtuns after having spent all their lives as refugees in Pakistan.
Today I met an Afghan refugee in Holland. He is from Nangarhar and he speaks slightly like people of Peshawar. He told me he was humiliated by an Afghan interpreter during his asylum application. The interpreter was someone who is not familiar with Mashreqi accent and wrongly assumed that the refugee is a Pakistani who is claiming asylum with a fake identity.
I was very upset. I can understand the tensions and hostilities due to political problems. But people are going to extremes to prove how much they hate Pakistan.


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