Durrand line

[khushal]

Even the logo of ISI was made by Brits. Everything in Pakistan is either Brit or Moghul. Nothing genuinely native.

Same thing goes for Afghanistan but to a lesser degree because although our nation-state is Brit-made, an Afghan proto-state did exist during the rule of Ahmad Shah Abdali and we were never colonized.

West is really benefiting from the mess in the Islamic World. Although this time, for the record, it has gone out of hand. West cant control the events and dynamics anymore thats why they failed almost in all their interventions: Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Yemen, Mali, Somalia, Sudan,..

Western hegemony is coming to an end. Even naive Westerners are starting to realize this thats why buffons like Trump are getting elected: "make AMerica great again" means that America is not great anymore. And if the USA is in decline so is the rest of the West (Europe is nothing without the USA). Bumpy times.

The Military spending went out of hand. Protectionists are taking over to control the spending. Trump wanted to control all spending, military and social services, but he is now only targeting social services. The MIC is too powerful and that will be its undoing of its influence in the World.

[salman47]

I never heard anyone say khorwa. Who says that?

It's the Northern accent thing(at least Northeast), and it does not refer to 'soup', but the soupy part of a dish(korma e.g.).

[salman47]

I never heard anyone say khorwa. Who says that?

we do

i mean
kunar , jalalabad,pekhawar,swat,kohat,Bajaur

mostly those with KHE dialect

We have the khe dialect but we say shorwo

Khe dialect here and the whole Village says 'Rishtya'. Believe me it just became mixed for some unknown reason, or the dialect separation was incomplete...

[Firdousi]

The Military spending went out of hand. Protectionists are taking over to control the spending. Trump wanted to control all spending, military and social services, but he is now only targeting social services. The MIC is too powerful and that will be its undoing of its influence in the World.

Trump had his opportunity but failed. Now USA instead of withdrawing and watch from far away how enemies kill each other it has decided to keep invading and bombing Islamic countries. Basically American empire has decided to commit suicide in the Islamic world.

[maneatinglizard]

We have the khe dialect but we say shorwo

We pronounce it like "shirwo," which, now that I think about it, is kind of weird as the o->i vowel shift is a Waziri thing, and I'm not sure if there are any other words in our Pashto with the same shift. We do have a->i shifts (like "wale" is pronounced "wiley" and "ghwag" is prnounced "ghwig"). I wonder why we pronounce it that way.

[khushal]

We pronounce it like "shirwo," which, now that I think about it, is kind of weird as the o->i vowel shift is a Waziri thing, and I'm not sure if there are any other words in our Pashto with the same shift. We do have a->i shifts (like "wale" is pronounced "wiley" and "ghwag" is prnounced "ghwig"). I wonder why we pronounce it that way.

I was trying to write it like the rest of the people but our pashto is unique. Every time I write Pashto in Roman alphabet, many people say my pashto is gada wada or incorrect which makes me laugh.
I was in Kabul a couple of years ago for the first time and every shopkeeper and taxi driver would recognize I was Zazai after one or two sentences.

[khushal]

Trump had his opportunity but failed. Now USA instead of withdrawing and watch from far away how enemies kill each other it has decided to keep invading and bombing Islamic countries. Basically American empire has decided to commit suicide in the Islamic world.

The more I read about what is happening inside the American political machine, the more I understand about how Empires fall. No matter how hard one tries and Trump tried all his best, no one can seem to challenge the MIC. The industry is too much entrenched and they are addicted to the easy money from the US treasury and they need a monster(Islam has replaced Soviet Communism) to convince people to keep feeding the military machine.

In the Middle East, they are now focused to support the weak parties in the conflict to prolong the wars making it profitable for them.

[khushal]

Khe dialect here and the whole Village says 'Rishtya'. Believe me it just became mixed for some unknown reason, or the dialect separation was incomplete...

Where are you from?

[Firdousi]

The more I read about what is happening inside the American political machine, the more I understand about how Empires fall. No matter how hard one tries and Trump tried all his best, no one can seem to challenge the MIC. The industry is too much entrenched and they are addicted to the easy money from the US treasury and they need a monster(Islam has replaced Soviet Communism) to convince people to keep feeding the military machine.

In the Middle East, they are now focused to support the weak parties in the conflict to prolong the wars making it profitable for them.

USA is not a country, its a huge corporation. Everything seems to be about money and wagecucking in that "country". Trump tried his best? I dont think so. I do believe he tried, but his own entourage brainwashed him into keep bombing foreign countries. His lack of political experience and knowledge are a huge handicap for him. Also the guy is emotional, irrational and easily-influenced to the core. That doesnt help.

In the coming decade we are going to witness some catastrophic times. Western national debt is getting out of hand and raising uncontrolled. Eventually in order to avoid default, Western governments will dump social services which will cause massive riots and instability.

[salman47]

Where are you from?

Warsak

[khushal]

USA is not a country, its a huge corporation. Everything seems to be about money and wagecucking in that "country". Trump tried his best? I dont think so. I do believe he tried, but his own entourage brainwashed him into keep bombing foreign countries. His lack of political experience and knowledge are a huge handicap for him. Also the guy is emotional, irrational and easily-influenced to the core. That doesnt help.

In the coming decade we are going to witness some catastrophic times. Western national debt is getting out of hand and raising uncontrolled. Eventually in order to avoid default, Western governments will dump social services which will cause massive riots and instability.

It wont be that bad but it will lose its influence it has/had in the World. Empires first lose their soft power and will be forced to resort to hard power to keep its influence and we are witnessing this phase. The West will still be a major player, but it wont be a dominant player. Many nations are already seeing benefit in doing business with China rather than the US meaning China is gaining it soft power while the US is starting to wane.The election of Trump is just the first reaction to the out of control spending and the fleecing by its elites.
Most of the turmoil from the fall of America will be outside the US. Its client regimes will collapse and that's where the turmoil and suffering will be.

[Akbar]

Khe dialect here and the whole Village says 'Rishtya'. Believe me it just became mixed for some unknown reason, or the dialect separation was incomplete...

That's actually true
But we do say a bit different , we say reshtay.

Btw here we are talking about Khorwa/shorwa.

[salman47]

That's actually true
But we do say a bit different , we say reshtay.

Btw here we are talking about Khorwa/shorwa.

We call the soupy/watery part of a dish/tarkari/katwe as khurwa. And soup is yakhni.
What about you?

[Iblis_Efreetzai]

We call the soupy/watery part of a dish/tarkari/katwe as khurwa. And soup is yakhni.
What about you?

I always call yakhni like a cold soup.

[Sarbani]

That's actually true
But we do say a bit different , we say reshtay.

Btw here we are talking about Khorwa/shorwa.

In my dialect, both rishtya and rixtya are used, but rixtya is more common. We exclusively say shorya though, this is the first time I've heard xorya/xorwa.