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[khushal]

Admina,
Ive been to peshawar many times, and have many family members living there. Pashto is spoken everywhere in the city. I've never met someone that refused to speak pashto. Sometimes I do run into people that mix pashto with urdu words. For example they call "Kota," room, "camara."
Whenever I went to the market and asked the shopkeepers how much something is they usually respond in persian/urdu as far as numbers are concerned. When I tell them "pashto waya." They look at me as though Im uneducated, as though I have not went to school to learn the "sophisticated way to comunicate numbers."
So my understanding is that in peshawar, if you use urdu and english words along side pashto, you are considered a sophisticated educated person. If you use only pashto, you are considered uneducated that just came down from the mountain villages.

[khushal]

nice wrotten. pakistan zindabad.

What does pakistan have to do with it, the article is about afghanistan.

[Shehbaz Khan]

^ This article is about Pekhawar and this city belongs to Pakistan

[graveyardofempires]

^ This article is about Pekhawar and this city belongs to Pakistan

keep dreaming
who says it belongs to pakistan?angreez?jinah?

[Shehbaz Khan]

^ The whole world, even you know this .. Look at the world map ... Open google earth .. and tell me where you found Peshawar?

[Admin Khan]

Khushal, Shehbaz and Luffy,
Thanks for the clarification.

[Manzareh]

iv never come accross a pashtun that refuses to speak pashto (if he knows pashto) ever, iv lived in peshawar its a 100% pashtun city, no pashtun has lost his mother tounge there. Admin seems to have had a unique experience. however its not like Afghanistan were you get pashtuns that do not know pashto, there some people here in PF that are pashtun but only know Dari for example Lemar/Edris, Azmal etc

[graveyardofempires]

I was reading history of marwats, durrani soldiers used to come to lakki marwat to collect tax. As marwats were semi-nomads and independant so they used to refuse payment of tax. In response powerful durrani soldiers used to massacre marwats and used to forcibly take cattle from them.

wowo ok than lets all start some hatred between pashtuns ,its so much fun.
lets play the game we love punjabis and will do anything to devide pashtuns.

[graveyardofempires]

iv never come accross a pashtun that refuses to speak pashto (if he knows pashto) ever, iv lived in peshawar its a 100% pashtun city, no pashtun has lost his mother tounge there. Admin seems to have had a unique experience. however its not like Afghanistan were you get pashtuns that do not know pashto, there some people here in PF that are pashtun but only know Dari for example Lemar/Edris, Azmal etc

yeah and your fellow pathan imran khan is a very good pashto speaker.
and im warning you dont talk **** about Afghanistan cuz you dont know anything it seems from your posts.

you go around the net and find some propaganda piece to make yourself happy but that doesnt make it true.

in peshawer schools are in urdu and second language of pakistan is english not pashto.atleast in Afghanistan we have pashto universities ,people speak pashto even the non pashtuns,the national anthem is in pashto,military ranks/commands are in pashto,news papers tv stations,news on tv.
you are an anti Afghan who will say anything to disrespect afghans.
dont make me start ........

[Manzareh]

warning me?? LOL, its freedom of speach yuor a nobody to me so dont pity yourself speaking like your some authority over me, dont use threats over the internet, it doesnt make you look hard.

"yeah and your fellow pathan imran khan is a very good pashto speaker"
- Imran Khan is a half pashtun.

"in peshawer schools are in urdu and second language of pakistan is english not pashto.atleast in Afghanistan we have pashto universities...blah blah blah blah"
- Pakistan is not a pashtun country DUHH!!


"you are an anti Afghan who will say anything to disrespect afghans"
- Your an anti-pashtun and pro persian.



Your getting heated over a post...but the post i made was the TRUTH...you know what they say...the truth hurts

[Admin Khan]

Guys please take it easy.

Dear Manzareh,

What I said was simply an observation based on my most recent encounter. I never make baseless assumptions, which is why I asked for an elaboration from our fellow brothers across the imaginary line.

Also, respected Manzareh, it is not nice nor fair to put the spot-light on our members in such fashion. It would be of your best interest to know that Edris/Lemar hails from Herat and he speaks Pashto.

Best,

-Admin

[Manzareh]

i didnt say you was telling tales or anything mr.admin, i just gave my view. and as for mentioning names, i only stated what i know and what they have openly proclaimed infront of everybody anyway. but my apologies.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

The peshaweri you met was a westrenized one , his identity crisis was natural. It is very unfair to compare peshawer with kabul. Make a visit to peshawer and observe things by yourself , then every thing will be clear to you.

Peshawar and Kabul both are alike both have same kind of people...Laka sayil saib che wayee:
يو شان پښتون دے، يو شان وجود دے
کۀ کابلے دے کۀ پېښورے دے
يو مې زړګے دے بل مې ځيګر دے هلته هم زۀ مرم دلته هم زۀ مرم

I am living in peshawar....and daily i met with people who are pukhtuns but would prefer to speak urdu rather than pashto.......When provincial cabinet accepted the proposal of pashto committee to teach pashto as a compulsory subject in govt; schools, i heard most of the peshawaris considering this step of the govt as a hindrance in the way of modernisation.....So i think admin is right there live such people amongst us who would prefer to speak in urdu than in their mother tongue pashto.......such people can be found both in Kabul and Peshawar.....

[Michin Khel]

Peshawar and Kabul both are alike both have same kind of people...Laka sayil saib che wayee:
يو شان پښتون دے، يو شان وجود دے
کۀ کابلے دے کۀ پېښورے دے
يو مې زړګے دے بل مې ځيګر دے هلته هم زۀ مرم دلته هم زۀ مرم

I am living in peshawar....and daily i met with people who are pukhtuns but would prefer to speak urdu rather than pashto.......When provincial cabinet accepted the proposal of pashto committee to teach pashto as a compulsory subject in govt; schools, i heard most of the peshawaris considering this step of the govt as a hindrance in the way of modernisation.....So i think admin is right there lives such people amongst us who would prefer to speak in urdu than in their mother tongue pashto.......

It seems you are trying to please members from afghanistan here, you are clearly lying. There are hindkowans and indian mohajirs in peshawer ,even they know Pashto. Kabul on the other hand is a dari city.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

Raasha che khpalo marwato sara dey milawo kam che haghvee da govt; pa dey step sa' tasuraat lareeeeee.....lol ....BTW have you ever been to Kabul??????? i would also add this that the only difference i see between the the citizens of the two historic cities is that kabulis Love pashto they can understand/read/write pashto script while most of peshawaris can only speak it.....that is why they are not happy with the decision of the govt; .....