Greetings from a Herati Tajik

[Herat]

Congratulations on your chosen field. It is a wise decision and I am sure you will find your work rewarding and intellectually stimulating.

I am a physician here in the states and should you desire to further your studies or training here we should stay in contact.

Thank you Dr BarakzaiAbdali, well I have 5 years of medical school before I give that much thought but advice from an Afghan Physician (Im assuming youre from Afghanistan?) will be helpful. Im also assuming you will be available through this forum?

Khoobi?

(Do you say that in Dari?..lol)

Yeah I'm in London.

"Up north" is a very general term, in some parts of the north/midlands there are whole communities of Muslims e.g. Alum Rock in Birmingham, just ask @Manzareh. However I know what you mean, you're from a place different to those areas with few foreigners.

There are loads of Afghans in London just like Somalis and Iraqis due to the wars in those countries. Just go to any of the Afghan restaurants in London.

Anyway hope you enjoy the forum!

Thats Iranian slang lol. By North I mean all the way -Durham- and yeah very few foreigners there; aside from an Iraqi fellow and a few Indians, I was the only guy in my entire high-school who was not ethnic British. You're right, Ive seen/talked to many here but I just don't personally know any, I think the problem is more my asociality than anything else :p and thanks again!

Khush omaded dear Herati Tajik !
May I ask, if You are a Tajik, what is your oppinion on Tajikistan?
Have you any closer knowledge on Tajikistan ?
What is your opinion on Uzbekistan-Tajikistan relations ?

Thank You in advance!

Thank you Tjanaparh, I don't know too much about Tajikistan (except through historical reading in our region in general) but it seems that it is still much closer to the other ex-Soviet bloc states than it is to North Afghanistan or Iran. I don't know much about the Tajik-Uzbek issue either, are you from one of these Central Asian states (or interested in their affairs)?

[Tjanaparh]

Thank you Tjanaparh, I don't know too much about Tajikistan (except through historical reading in our region in general) but it seems that it is still much closer to the other ex-Soviet bloc states than it is to North Afghanistan or Iran. I don't know much about the Tajik-Uzbek issue either, are you from one of these Central Asian states (or interested in their affairs)?

Dear Herati, no I am Armenian, but I know from personal experience a bit about ruling elies of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Further I lived in a partly Kazakh area.
About Tajikistan i have fewer informations, mostly from friends.
I can tell You that Tajikistan is made up of two main areas, the Tajik area and the Autonomus Mountain Badakhshan. In The Badakhshan live Pamirian ethnicities in the west of the region, and few Kyrghyz in the East. I don't know about border of Tajik areas of Tajikistan with Afghanistan, like Kulob, but the Pamirians have very active contact I think, and are partly relatives on both sides.
From TV mostly it seems that Tajikistan has close relations to Iran, but You are right, much more it has to Russia. It is the poorest of Central Asian countries and is in a way cut of. So a big part of male population works in Russia, and for that it has quite close relations to the RF.
There is a conflict between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan about the mistreatment of minorities and about the cities of Samarkand and Bukhoro.
Various times on CIS meeting Emomali Rahmon and Islam Karimov started fighting with words and even hands. Tajikistan had suufered of inner civil war after Soviet times, that weakened it even more. Also drug trafficing from Afghanistan is a serious issue there. I have many good Pamirian friends from Tajikistan and also some Tajiks, really nice people, very hard working and peaceful.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

welcome to the forum

[Herat]

Hey thanks Da Bannu Mazdigar (and a thanks to all future welcoming posts :p).

[Admin Khan]

Makes me very happy to see people utilizing the board in a positive way. Thank you Dr.BarakzaiAbdali for lending your expertise, and support, to a fellow Afghan.
@BarakzaiAbdali

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Makes me very happy to see people utilizing the board in a positive way. Thank you Dr.BarakzaiAbdali for lending your expertise, and support, to a fellow Afghan.
@BarakzaiAbdali

No problem, perhaps you could move some of the pertinent discussion into the medical thread if you think it suitable...

[Admin Khan]

[MENTION=17960]Herat[/MENTION] How did you find this board?

[Herat]

@Herat How did you find this board?

Admin Khan, let me just say that you guys seem to be infinitely friendlier and more reasonable than the other side and leave it at that

[Admin Khan]

Admin Khan, let me just say that you guys seem to be infinitely friendlier and more reasonable than the other side and leave it at that

Oh no, not that. I meant how did you literally *find* this website. On Google, on Facebook, as in how did you stumble on it? My apologies for my slang.

[Bengal_Tiger]

*Obselete*

[Herat]

Oh no, not that. I meant how did you literally *find* this website. On Google, on Facebook, as in how did you stumble on it? My apologies for my slang.

My misinterpretation; I found it on google quite a while back actually when searching through Afghanistan-related news (I think it was probably the first ethnic community forum I actually stumbled on). I rarely ever use social media although Id imagine the forum is more likely to be found that way.

[Bengal_Tiger]

My misinterpretation; I found it on google quite a while back actually when searching through Afghanistan-related news (I think it was probably the first ethnic community forum I actually stumbled on). I rarely ever use social media although Id imagine the forum is more likely to be found that way.

Have you ever read some of my threads on Herat-related news?

[Herat]

Have you ever read some of my threads on Herat-related news?

I did see the rapper related news (and agree with the first part of your final assessment, I don't like rap :p).

[Sarbani]

Welcome to the forums.

We're not all suicide bombers, ethnocentric, xenophobic, fanatic and fascist!

By the way, I have a question for you: What's going to happen to Afghans who are products of multiethnic relationships if a partition were to happen?

You do realize there are millions of Afghans who are mixed but because Afghanistan is a patriarchal, misogynistic and a patrillineal society they are said to only belong to their father's ethnic group.

What's going to happen to my little cousins? Some of them are half Panjsheri, others half uzbeki, a few half-uncles of mine are half hazara, and many relatives of mine are half Nuristani.

I guess we should just exterminate them, and maybe I should kill my step grandmother because she's from Herat and her existence will make everything much more complicated when a partition happens.

Why can't the mixed people just stay living where they are after partition?

[Baraki]

Why can't the mixed people just stay living where they are after partition?

Lol I suppose they can live wherever they want, its not like the will FORCE all Pashtuns to the East or anything most will go out of their own free will. But the mixed people will likely go with the people they identify with (mostly dads side) like i am only 1/4th Ormur and my 3/4 are other pakhtun tribes but I obviously identify with the patriarchal link because thats how our society mostly works)