what were pashtuns before islam?

[TURK]

what religion/culture did pashtuns follow before islam?? i need real history please

also who built the buddah statues at Bamiyan?? were they built by pashtuns or other people in afghanistan area?? didn't indians also live in afghanistan during the Ashoka the great time, when his empire streched empire from afghanistan to east india?

this is the empire of ashoka the great:



This is ashokas inscription from Kandahar, afghanistan:

If these maps have some worth than you should know that thay are not 100% accurate maps but the the ACCRUTE IS THE MAP OF INDIA UNDER US I MEAN THE MUSLIMS, PASHTUNS, MUGHALS.
I know you cant forget that and just remember. Because it is very bitter to live in slavery always when you have no abilities to mange the government issues.
Building the Budha statue is history but destroying the statue is Current Reality. We are not tired baby we are still here, poor SANSKIRT.

[TURK]

sanskrit kindly please stop posting these kind of threads afghanistan & india are very good friends & share historical & culture geo-political ties but pushing any thing further then its limits backfire its the rule of nature respect for every religion is a must but their is no such thing as an original hindu & converted muslim the conversion then becomes the original thus forming the actual identity while the former cease to exist so one must respect the choice of the people & recognized as their religious identity now is no such thing as a born christian converted buddhist so he/she has to be actually a christian no rather its a buddhist by birth or the person was born to become a buddhist in case of conversion

SHARE HISTORICAL & CULTURE GEO-POLITICAL?

Rubbish

[Chelsea-Fan]

SHARE HISTORICAL & CULTURE GEO-POLITICAL?

Rubbish

He is right. The entire eastern part of Afghanistan share the same history with India.

[Sanskrit]

Sanscrit was spoken in northern India, not Pakhtunwa or Afghanistan. Avistan was the language of middle asia. Our original home was always the region between Sindh and Qandahar. Your claim do not fit in that. I head something about saka language but this is only a theory. Accoridng to al-barani Pashtuns were no Hindus, no Muslims and no Zorostrians. Recognize also the facts that modern Pakhtusn are different than the people of ancient days. Modern Pakhtuns have also non-Pakhtun tribes and people as ancestors who invaded our region the last 1000years and earlier. Jews, Arabs, Lodi, Khalji, Indians and many more.

Sanskrit was spoken in north western pakistan, infact rig Veda mentions places like Swat, Peshawar etc... even the first grammarian of Sanskrit ( Pāṇini ) was from Peshawar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini

^ Sanskrit started is some where of northern pakistan/Kashmir/Punjab area then spread in to rest of northern india. (kashmiri) is thought to be the closes language to Sanskrit even today

[Sanskrit]

He is right. The entire eastern part of Afghanistan share the same history with India.

not entire india, obviously history of eastern india and south india is not really similar to afghanistan, but western and northern areas of (ancient India) have historical similarities with afghanistan, areas like Punjab/Sindh, Delhi, Himachal, Rajhastan etc...

[arien]

forget pashtun/pakhtum...be a gud humane and do gud deeds for others

u wont win anything keeping those words...all wastage of time...

[Midnight_Sun]

Since Pashtuns are made up of different confederations through time, there may have been quite a few different religions.

One was probably similar to Zoroastrianism, but a Saka version of it. In Bactria, the local inhabitants would feed their feeble, old, and dead to the dogs and vultures.

The Tocharians had their own Gods, and probably shared similarities with the Huns. They adopted Buddhism and spread it across Asia.

The Hephtalites differed from the Persians, but also from the Huns. There are reports that they worshiped the sun and buried their dead, and practiced polyandry. They later adopted Hinduism and Buddhism.

When the Turkic Ghaznavids were invading South Asia, they had armies of converted Afghans, but also got in battles with Afghans who were fighting alongside the Hindu kings. The Khalaj (Ghaljay) were considered Turkic and probably shared the same religion with the Oghuz and other Turks. In historical texts that I've read, Afghans were distinguished from the Hindus, and some were grouped among the Hindus. So even among Afghans at that time, there may have been different religions.

[TURK]

He is right. The entire eastern part of Afghanistan share the same history with India.

The eastern part of Afghanistan shares history with than western India now PAKISTAN. not with modern india

[Sanskrit]

^ you mean Gandhara/Taxila? also indus civilization???

[TURK]

^ you mean Gandhara/Taxila? also indus civilization???

Indus civilization was destroyed by the eastern Aryans the fore fathers of Ashoka

[Midnight_Sun]

That is not true.

[Prince Khan]

Well there are different pashtun sects. I myself am from the khattak pashtuns.
And the khattaks and Yusufzai are descendents of the 2 sons of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) according to this link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khattak
The Khattak came from the son of Manasseh and the Yusufazai came from Ephraim.
But these are not the muslim variations of the names. They are called this by the non-muslims. For example, Joseph means Yusuf for muslims, that is why the Yusufzai are called Yusuf Zai (sons of Yusuf)

[iamis]

PASHTUN'S ARE PASHTUN'S WE DON'T CARE ABOUT 100000000 YEARS AGO WE WAS SAME MUSLIM OR HINDU BUT WE REMEMBER THOSE PEOPLE'S WHO'S MADE PASHTUN HISTORY AND THEY WARE MUSLIM'S AND ALHAMDULILILAH WE ARE ALSO MUSLIM !
1st row: Ibrahim Lodi · Sher Shah · Rahman Baba
2nd row: Khushal Khan · Mirwais · Ahmad Shah
3rd row: Akbar Khan · Ayub Khan · Abdur Rahman
4th row: Amanullah · Bacha Khan · Zahir Shah
5th row: Momand · Khalilzad · Karzai

[shabnam]

i just love my pashto

[retro]

The Khattak came from the son of Manasseh and the Yusufazai came from Ephraim. But these are not the muslim variations of the names. They are called this by the non-muslims. For example, Joseph means Yusuf for muslims, that is why the Yusufzai are called Yusuf Zai (sons of Yusuf)

No Joseph is the English variation of the Hebrew name Yosef `God Will Increase`. Yusuf يوسف is merely the Arabic form of the same name. However it is a Hebrew name.

The Quran's plagiarised gibbish extents, even to names.