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Chapandaz Aziz Ahmad, Former Mujahid and the best living Buzkashi athlete from Afghanistan.
Born in Kunduz.
When do you think it begun going downhill for kasheer?
Was it after Sardar Atta Muhammad Khan Bamzai/Sardar Abdullah Khan Alakozai (depicted above) fell?
When Dogras sold it to india upon losing to Afghan/Kashmiri militia?
After JKLF failed/Muqbhool bhat died?
Especially after JKLF became irrelevant, and populace begun having disillusionment with it, it was all over.
Even during JKLF peak, it was pretty clear voices of kasheer, like they are now today, were going to be drowned out by the Indians/pakistanis (even non valley people, who are much more prone to screaming "pakistani/Indian kashmiri!!" Than ethnic koshurs, given since, JKLF was almost fully kashmiri, not potwari or something else, but i still hate how others use them to represent kasheer) who exist in a much bigger volume that koshur people.
Miniature artwork depicting Afghan/Pashtuns in traditional attire.
The artist is sort of a weirdo, but cool stuff, his names Charlie though he uses a alias called "shah wali". Artwork from 2026.
Thoughts on Afghans who fought for Farsiwan/Indian independence?
Hakim Khan Suri (d. 1576): fought to defend the regional sovereignty and freedom of Mewar against imperial centralization, leading the vanguard at the Battle of Haldighati (1576).
Bakht Khan (c. 1797 – 1859): Commander-in-Chief of the first Indian war of Independence (1857).
Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai (1897 – 1937): Fought in Anglo-Afghan war 3 (1919), went onto become one the founding fathers of Tajikistan.
Haji Sahib of Turangzai (1842/1858 – 1937): Central figure in armed and intellectual resistance against Colonial British, launching major uprisings in 1897 and 1915.
"WE ARE PROUD OF YOU", poster depicting Afghan Minister of Defense Shahnawaz of the Tanai tribe, 1983.
Wardag Pashtuns with a Turkmeni capturee, wardag, 1984
As their crimes begun to become harder to hide or mindlessly support, let us not forget, their cause and ours are different.
Im sure many of you have seen the recent increase in hate for the government by pakistanis, I even saw some punjabis themselves say things along the line of "only pashtuns can save pakistan now" and things along the line.
Pakistan, is obviously something that's beginning to leak from its cracks on all sides, but let us not unite with the populace of Pakistan, in our common hate against this government, remember, they only care about us, as long as they can use us to whitewash themselves.
They haven't had some sudden change in heart in a generation, do not be be so easily fooled, Pakistan is never an option, inherently for us.
We tried to save kashmir, and ended up hurting both the kashmiris and ourselves beyond repair, we have enough of our problems, of sovereignty, to be saving others.
How did we, unlike baluch,tauregs and kurds, became so disillusioned with our freedom fighters?
As did always, Afghan trancend kabul, barazakis, taliban and the resistence trancends TTP.
we are obviously aware of them funding extremist groups, carrying out strikes and blaming it on them to cause disillusionment within the public and heavily investing in propaganda against it, since day 1, when they invited arab muftis to convince us for jihad anywhere but Pakhtunkhwa, I mean hell even within the extremist TTP, theirs ample videos of them executing their own members for civilian murder, they follow their rules. Litreally Sparta by the hair style.
Ofcourse taliban and ttp are objectively bad, before anyone calls me a apologist, I think pro taliban pashtuns are being paid by wakanda or something if anything. But there's too much lies and controlling of the narration too, Mullah Omar didn't expel najeeb ullah, he expelled the US puppet, from the other islamist warlord faction, who werent even ethnic afghans, as bad as he was.
Words of the Qing Grand Councilors, upon Afghan envoys refusing to bow to the Qing Emperor, 1763, Beijing.
Conquering qing vassal states, installing his soliders at the Kyrgz-Qing border upon the pleading of central asian chiefs, the tales of his annexation of hind, and refusing to bow from the start, all had led to Qing China, Qianlong seeing the Afghans, Ahmed Shah as a rival and threat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrani%E2%80 %93Qing_relations
"Let us be alert of our surroundings, there're adversaries all-around, provoking us to kill one another, they vow to be friends, but are enemies." - Ahmed Shah Afghan
in this century of Pakhtun turmoil, let us not forget, there is no ours but ourselves.
For how "honorable" Sikhs claim to be, being associated with them has been horrible for our history, even by the way of conquest.
Has anyone noticed how horrible the Sikh, or indian in general, acute on history of the Sikh-Afghan wars?
They genuinely think they conquered Afghanistan or put the Durranis to bed (A dynasty that would last till till 1980s, from 1740s and, unlike the 50 years of Sikh existence, and it would be bigger throughout aswell), when according to, like, anyone, none of this happened.
They pretend their brief tenure, of 50 years, and their war of independence against the foreign Afghans after centuries of himulation, is somehow a sign of supeirority, they go on and on about "conquering" the Afghans, while all they did was put pekhawar under their wing, which at the time had not even 15% pashtun population, only the elites/maliks were Afghan. How have they twisted liberating themselves into this? How were we the foreign genociders, but also the inferior warriors somehow? They will take Shah Shuja, the british puppet, being in pekhawar with his army and somehow, twist it to, "Afghans took refuge in sikh territories during the Anglo wars!!!", while litreally speaking of the force Afghans beat to win the Anglo Afghan war 1, in every Anglo Afghan war they either fought by, or under the british.
I cannot comprehend it, they post and spread it everywhere aswell, why has spreading blatantly false information our history become so common? It feels as if everyone from the English to Turks to tajiks to indians are trying to rewrite Afghan history in any Afghan discussions online.
Direct political relations with the Afghan tribesmen, and the fixing of a frontier with the ruler of Kabul, are stories which belong to the British period.
The Sikhs made no attempt to occupy the hill territories, or even to conduct direct relations with their inhabitants. They never entered Swat, Buner, Bajaur, the Kurram Valley or Waziristan.-
Sir Olaf Caroe, 1956
An Afghan Agha/Sirdar/Khan of likely Barakzai origin and his British redcoat slave, 1841.
Palace turned Mausoleum of the Iron Amir, Kabul, Afghanistan.
Gul Muhammad Khan of the Ghilzai Afghans, wearing Pusteen, Later known as the Afghan coat and then the Penny lane coat.
Ladies of the Iron amirs harem, Afghanistan, 1896.
Attack on a Baggage Train Near Koruh by Afghans (mangal, zazi and turi tribe), January 1879, Richard Caton Woodville II.
A Lone British officer with a revolver on horseback is depicted insulated and surrounded completely by (british) Indian soldiers who take the blunt of the attack by the Afghans.