Another achievement of ANP. ده اې این پي بله لاس ته راوړنه

[TURK]

It is a great news for Pashtu itself and for Pashtuns as well. I hope it will reduce differences among pashtuns Pakistani and Afghanistanis and Pakistan and Afghanistan as well.

[Badlun]

Great news. Some thing is always better than nothing if every thing is not possible. Now Pashtuns will be more Pashtuns intellectually and will avoid extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism. The antidote for all these evils is more and more Pashtunwali and Pashtun nationalism.

The next step should be making Pasto official and court language. This will give Pashto its real status. ANP is far better than the former MMA who made Urdu the official language of Pashtunkhwah.

[az4er]

Thats very good news. As long as Ghani Khan and Najibullah are not in the curriculum and Asfandyaar is not enlisted alongside the likes of graan Mir Wais Neka and Ahmad Shah Baba, this will be a good step.

Now the next thing that will be amazing is if they get rid of urdoo out of the curriculum forever.

This is one facet of the Pakistani state construction I still cannot fathom to this day. What is the economic benefit of implementing urdoo? The country's arch enemy is India, where the closest approximation is hindi, and they do not trade. Its not a language of science... was it simply a forced langugae like Hindi was in India (Hindi alongside English comprise India's national languages) to unify the country???

I know Admin Khan says all languages are beautiful, but it hurts the ears when you travel through there and hear: teek taak, Ow jee, mashum bandaay ultee ramatshwa. First time I heard teek taak, I wanted to vomit. And tashakur and manena were replaced by shoookria. Your heart just falls.

Maybe I can help with that. Ordoo/Hindustani was chosen by the British to be the lingua franca for the Indians in their empire (prior to that it was by the Mughal empire, who actually created it out of some indigenous Indian language from someplace called khariboli; and substituted alot of the vocab with Farsi to suit them.).

And since Pakistan was created by the British and Muslim Hindustanis who at the time were more "educated" and thought the country would be their personal fortress against their vengeful Hindu counterparts; they decided to force their history and language (regardless of the fact that 80% of the population couldn't speak ordoo) as the legitimate history of Pakistan through sheer manipulation via Islam.

What bothers me most is when some Pakistanis I talk to say that ordoo and hindi is not the same! Yeah, put in a bit of sanskrit in place of arabic and persian, there you go, a world of difference..


Also, I think the move is a positive sign. Its been a long time coming (about 60 years long). It certainly is a welcome change from the garbage that's usually taught in schools. I think it'll increase Pashtun awareness and the will to do better for their communities. Pakistan's constant diversion of Pashtun unity and awareness by means of extremist indoctrination will hopefully be curtailed permanently, as we're finally seeing development in FATA and the slow yet continuing settling of PATA regions. This should fortify Pashtun identity in Pakistan and hopefully bring about a resurgence of nationalism, similar to that prior to the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan during the early 1970s.

[Master Khan]

ANP stills sucks, it taken them this long for this, they should teaching these at the start of school to children...not secondly schools

[Toramana]

Maybe I can help with that. Ordoo/Hindustani was chosen by the British to be the lingua franca for the Indians in their empire (prior to that it was by the Mughal empire, who actually created it out of some indigenous Indian language from someplace called khariboli; and substituted alot of the vocab with Farsi to suit them.).

And since Pakistan was created by the British and Muslim Hindustanis who at the time were more "educated" and thought the country would be their personal fortress against their vengeful Hindu counterparts; they decided to force their history and language (regardless of the fact that 80% of the population couldn't speak ordoo) as the legitimate history of Pakistan through sheer manipulation via Islam.

What bothers me most is when some Pakistanis I talk to say that ordoo and hindi is not the same! Yeah, put in a bit of sanskrit in place of arabic and persian, there you go, a world of difference..


Also, I think the move is a positive sign. Its been a long time coming (about 60 years long). It certainly is a welcome change from the garbage that's usually taught in schools. I think it'll increase Pashtun awareness and the will to do better for their communities. Pakistan's constant diversion of Pashtun unity and awareness by means of extremist indoctrination will hopefully be curtailed permanently, as we're finally seeing development in FATA and the slow yet continuing settling of PATA regions. This should fortify Pashtun identity in Pakistan and hopefully bring about a resurgence of nationalism, similar to that prior to the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan during the early 1970s.

Welcome wrora---very well said---but there is no cure for twisted thinking----

[az4er]

Welcome wrora---very well said---but there is no cure for twisted thinking----

Manana! Well I guess we should make it our to job to find one then...

[Levanaye Zalmaye]

ANP stills sucks, it taken them this long for this, they should teaching these at the start of school to children...not secondly schools

This is the first time the ANP has ever come into power in Peshawar. ANP ba da spiyano zaman wi kho che sok kha kaar okrri no bayad munga warsara mlatarri okrru da spakawalo pa zay.

During the pre-1979 era, Pashtun nationalism was the #1 threat to the British creation of Pakistan. For now, it has been successfully subdued and it has been suppressed with such skill that those who have been led astray do not even know that the ideological paths that they now follow are those that their very recent ancestors fought to stay away from for the sake of their nation and its future generations.

Even on Pashtun Forums, there are only 5-6 lar ao bar yow Afghan nationalists, the rest promote causes and ideologies that are without doubt wholly detrimental to Pashtun unity.

In any case, this is a step in the right direction. The Pakistani state has always tried very hard to disassociate Pashtuns from their culture and history and replace their identity with a "pan Indian-Muslim" one. Hopefully, the teaching of Pashto in our schools will be the first among many steps to revive the Afghan identity in Pushtunkhwa.