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    Posted: 01-Mar-2009 at 11:35

An Afghan poster mentioned that the Nuristani (formerly Kafiristanis, or Kafirs of the Hindukush) are an Iranian group.

In actuality they are niether Iranic nor Indic, but a separate group unto themselves. Previously they categorized as an archaic Indic group (Dardic).
 
Another interesting point is that the Durand Agreement clearly states that Arnawai(Arandu) and Bashgal(Eastern Nuristan) are regions outside of Afghan influence, but in 1895 the Afghans forcibly captured Bashgal and converted the people to Islam. Bashgal had previously been tributary to Chitral, and the Afghans took advantage of a war of succession in Chitral took launch a campaign in Bashgal.
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  Quote MarcoPolo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Apr-2009 at 20:56
Originally posted by Zomaan Shilogh Dyak

An Afghan poster mentioned that the Nuristani (formerly Kafiristanis, or Kafirs of the Hindukush) are an Iranian group.

In actuality they are niether Iranic nor Indic, but a separate group unto themselves. Previously they categorized as an archaic Indic group (Dardic).
 
Another interesting point is that the Durand Agreement clearly states that Arnawai(Arandu) and Bashgal(Eastern Nuristan) are regions outside of Afghan influence, but in 1895 the Afghans forcibly captured Bashgal and converted the people to Islam. Bashgal had previously been tributary to Chitral, and the Afghans took advantage of a war of succession in Chitral took launch a campaign in Bashgal.
 
yes, that is true.  Several of these valleys paid tribute to the mehter(Beg) of Chitral and where cut off from their natural and historical routes to Northern Pakistan(Chitral) when they were forcibly conquered and converted to Islam by the ''Iron Amir'' of Afghanistan. 
 
Also, I agree, the region of Northern Pakistan was also called Dardistan a long time ago, they are an indigenous group formerly known as Dard. They are an ancient people unto themselves and should not be confused with the more populous Iranic or Indic groups. 
 
 Interestingly, according to the Durand line agreements, those regions should still be considered associated with Chitral and subsequently Pakistani administrative control.  The Pakistani government should put a case forward in this regard so that those people in Nuristan forcibly captured by the Afghans can be liberated and a historical unjust be corrected.  In the case of the Kalash, the establishment of the Durand Line in effect, protected them from the Pograms of the Afghan Iron Amir otherwise they would be an extinct group today Cry
 
Even when you travel to Chitral (Chitral City), you will notice that there is still considerable inter-change and many settlements of Nuristani from Afghanistan within this region of northern Pakistan and they are often treated as local people(s), so the social bonds still appear to be intact.  Smile  Many of them have integrated on a much better scale vs Afghans of other nationalities (i.e. Turkmen,Tajiks etc..) within Pakistani society.
 
P.S. have you gone to Chitral recently?, last time I went was a good couple years ago, how is the Lowari pass progressing??


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  Quote PakistaniShield Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-Apr-2009 at 23:59
This all depends how you want to start Afghan history. Most modern day states did not have their modern names.
 
The state of Afghanistan was formed in 1747.
 
The claim of Afghan race is a bit misleading. Afghans  are more of a nationality than a race. The Afghan people are mainly of Mongoloid and Caucasianoid stock- 2 completely different backgrounds.
here is from the CIA world factbook:
 
Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan and the National Assembly was inaugurated the following December. Despite gains toward building a stable central government, a resurgent Taliban and continuing provincial instability - particularly in the south and the east - remain serious challenges for the Afghan Government.


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  Quote PakistaniShield Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2009 at 00:18

A couple of other misconceptions I wanna clear up.

Pakhtuns=Iranic people (a linguistic defination not racial one)

Nuristanis=Drardic

Uzbeks=Turkic

Hazaaras=Iranic  (again linguistic terms since Hazaraaz are Mongoloid)

 
In short there is no "Afghan race" anymore than a Soviet race. Afghans consist of many races including those of caucasianoid and mongoloid stock.
 
 

 

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  Quote Afghanan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2009 at 08:36
Originally posted by MarcoPolo

 
 
 
Out of curiousity, Afghanan, do you think the British would have eventually pushed further into Afghanistan had World War II not been so disastrous for them and/or they remained the colonial rulers of South Asia?  Or if Afghanistan had more resourses to offer, would there have been greater impetus in securing it? Would this have been a positive or negative thing in the modern political sense of the region in our times? Im curious, as we often read that Afghanistan was left as a buffer state, and due to the logistical nightmare of mounting a campagin to annex it would have required considerable effort.  A simple agreement with Russia(itself overextended) seems too simplistic of a reason.  While not discounting the fighting spirit of the people as a factor which certainly proved considerable, they(British) did send expeditions/forces in this regard on several occasions and had a reputation for their resolve in accomplishing tasks which were in the interest of ''her majesty's Empire''.  They had accomplished many ''impossible'' tasks and previously unconquered regions before thanks to the advances of modern warfare and technology.  I wonder, what in the ultimate sense, truly stopped them at the border.  anyhow, whats your take on the issue?
 
The short answer is No.  The British would not invade Afghanistan again.  If you are going to talk about the Great Game, you can't help but mention Russia.  When Czarist Russia was shamefully defeated by the Japanese in the turn of the 20th century, that led to a complete change in the balance of power.  Russians grew vehemently opposed to the Czar and hence aspirations to take over India.   The British's reason to invade and occupy Afghanistan was to stop any efforts by Czarist Russia to influence the country.
 
When the British invaded Afghanistan on a false pretense, they learned the hard lesson that the country was difficult to occupy, and even harder to control.  Afghanistan was a costly mistake to the British.  This lesson was painfully learned by all would-be occupiers.  If you read Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game" you will see that the Imperial Britain went from hawkish leadership to conservative leadership quite a few times during the Great Game.  Depending on what kind of leadership was in charge, their policy to subdue the Afghan regions changed along with it.   British interests to the region was simple, to curb Russian expansion.
 
At the time, the Russians were intent on destabilizing Afghanistan and to make new inroads (and railroads) towards Herat and Northeastern Afghanistan where the border was still being mapped.  They tried taking Herat by aiding the Iranians in their sieges of Herat, but they failed.  Emir Abdur Rahman Khan was the sole Afghan that stopped the British from starting another costly campaign into Afghanistan.  His hatred for Russia was more than his hatred for the British.  Citing the failures of his cousins in his memoirs, he was willing to negotiate and cede lands in exchange for power, money, and weapons from the British army.  He was also willing to disperse any rebellions in his territory while vehemently opposing Russian influence.  All he asked was that the British aid him when he needed it against the Russians and the British came to his aid when the Russians attacked during the Panjdeh incident.  After that was resolved,  the British without the Afghan ruler being present, set in stone the borders that would make Afghanistan today.  Abdur Rahman Khan speaks about this in his memoirs and regretted that portions of NWFP had to be ceded to British control, but he was right in that the British would never be able to contain or control the border so in turn, he really didn't lose anything.


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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Apr-2009 at 06:23
the Pakistani government 'officially' honors Turk-afghan raiders such as ghazni and ghori  and highlights that Pakistani society is amalgation of these forces.

considering  this thought being etched into the public conciosness, i would venture to say quite a bit.
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Marco, I was in Chitral until November.
 
It is indeed as shame that our Mehtar's gave up their claims to Nuristan and the Kunar Valley down to Asmar. The Bashgalis and Kunar tribesmen even supported the Mehtar against the Afghan's in 1919. The Chitral Bodyguard even recaputured the fortress at Birkot, which is where the Bashgal river meets the Chitral river.
 
Even today the people of Nuristan still have close links to Chitral.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-May-2009 at 00:20
Yup theres more pashtuns in pakistan. But In pakistan pashtuns are not a majority. In afghanistan however they are.
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The people of nuristan have close ties with the pashtuns. Their language is also similar
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Ghazni is a province and the people that live there come from different ethnic groups. Pashtuns and Tajiks are the most in that province and the Uzbeks come after. How does that make them Turk-Afghan? Ghazni is not an ethnic group. 
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Uzbeks are not turks. Turks in Afghanistan come from the same group as the original Turks. They speak Turkish too. Uzbeks on the other hand are Aryan mixed with some mongol blood because of an invasion. And they speak uzbeki a persian language. 
And Im not mistaking them for Hazaras.
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By Mongoloid stock no they are not , the majority of them are of Aryan and Persian stock also Caucasian. and the mongols on the other hand are only the Hazaras a small minority (0.02%) in Afghanistan. 
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But by Afghan race. The mojority of them come from the same race (tajiks, pashtuns, uzbeks, hazaras) Yes even the hazaras. They are aryans mixed with mongols and hence they have those features. But the only difference is they speak Different Languages. But speaking different language doesnt make your DNA different. 
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marcopolo: Where did nooristan come from ? Nooristanis live in Nooristan a province of their own in Afghanistan and they choose to be in Afghanistan. The nooristanis are a small group and so they are endangered and so is their language. It wasn't because of the afghan government if you read Nooristani History. They are the remainders of Alexander the Great. And they are not DARDIC or anything. THey are Greek. They speak Nooristani and the live in a mountanous region. And no one bothers them except for the taliban. THe taliban didn't kill them they converted them to islam. But that doesn't mean their EXTINCT. ?!?! How could they be Extinct? The Durrand line did nothing to protect them. Just divide them from their families (The Kalashis ) Before the nooristanis became muslim they were called the Kalashis but Noor means Light. So they acheived light by becoming muslim or something. 

I don't know but you're mixing groups up. Nooristanis/kalashis are not dardic they are anceint greeks and they are left in Afghanistan/NWFP when Alexander the great left. They are Close to Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. The pashtuns and them are close friends. I don't know where you found this information. Angry 

My grandma is nooristani she would've yelled if she'd heard this. They hate being mixed up with another ethnic group. They are their own group Kalashi or as afghans call them nooristani. And they are devoted muslims now and wouldn't want to go back to their old costumes. 
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  Quote PakistaniShield Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-May-2009 at 04:07
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The people of nuristan have close ties with the pashtuns. Their language is also similar
 
The Nuristanis speak a Dardic language i believe, the same category as Kalashi and Kashmiri.
 
Indo-Iranic family is divided into 3 subfamilies. Indo-Aryan, Iranic and Dardic, though some linguists believe Dardic is actually part of Indo-Aryan.
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  Quote PakistaniShield Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-May-2009 at 04:11
PS-Norristanis ans Kalashis do not claim to be Alexander's descedents until the British introduced the idea. I spoke to a Nuristani and he told me the exact.
 
Also recent DNA tests show just the same.But anyways Im not in for an arguement on this mythical ancient Greek 'connection' to the Dards.
 
DNA proof along with linguistic and scholarly evidence shows these are not Greeks.  


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The Nuristanis never chose to be part of Afghanistan. Amir Abdur-Rahman conquered them and forced them to convert.
The Kafirs (Nuristanis) used to dislike the Pashtuns (and most other Afghans) to a great extant. A boy was not considered a man until he went down to Kunar anor Nangarhar and returned with the head of a Pashtun.
They got along much better with the Chitralis and the Kafirs of the Bashgal Valley even paid tribute to Chitral.
 
The Kalash are not related closely to the Nuristanis, even their religion used to be different and they speak different languages. The Nuristanis used to consider the Kalash to be a weak race and servile race, they would demand anything in a Kalash village and Kalash would have to give it to them.
 
And yes, the Greek theoory has been largely disproven.
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  Quote PakistaniShield Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Jul-2009 at 10:00
Originally posted by 00historylover00

Uzbeks are not turks. Turks in Afghanistan come from the same group as the original Turks. They speak Turkish too. Uzbeks on the other hand are Aryan mixed with some mongol blood because of an invasion. And they speak uzbeki a persian language. 
And Im not mistaking them for Hazaras.
 
Not at all. Uzbek is not an iranic language if thats what your talking about. Uzbek is not even related to persian. its a Turkic language, a subgroup of the Altaic language family.
 
And only a handful of Uzbeks are caucasianoid because of mixing. Overall Uzbeks are Mongoloid.
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Here are some facts about Durrand... its a imaginary line… nothing else and nothing more.

 

Durand treaty, the whole story.

The line devised by the British was worked by the British Colonial Officer Durand and thus became known as the Durand Line. The document was to be ratified by the legislative body in Afghanistan. It never happened. Legally the Durand Line remains as an imaginary line dividing families on both sides. It has never been demarcated either, especially from Khyber Agency north to Chitral. This artificial and imaginary line is increasingly becoming an area of conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan even with Taleban regime that ironically has had the political and military support of the government of Pakistan. As in 1999, a visit by an armed convoy of Taleban officials to Momand Agency has touched many nerves in Pakistan and has left it in shock. Friday Times of Pakistan reported the incident.

Indeed, Durand treaty was nullified from inception, since British presented Durand document in English and the person of Abdul Rahman Khan did not understand English language, therefore this leads the suspicious nature of forgery and or false documentation. The Dari or Pashto translation of this document or agreement has never been signed by Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, suggesting that he nullified this agreement. In Addition, after the “Gandomak” treaty, Afghanistan was no longer independent and was occupied by the British colonial power. The Durand Treaty was singed by Abdur Rahman Khan under duress without any consultation with the Afghan nation or even to put this issue to “loya jirga” (Grand Assembly of Afghan leaders). In this case, the British colonial occupiers acted as if a thief or terrorist was to occupy your home and pointed a gun to your head to sign off a quarter of your family's home without you even consulting the rest of your family, let alone asking about its justice. Even if we were to clearly prove that Afghanistan was (a) under no colonial occupation during that time; (was entirely independent and represented by an independent and rightly elected leader (Abd Rahman Khan) who was acting in accordance with its national interest and put the "Durand Treaty" issue to our “loya jirga” and consulted all tribal leaders on both sides, this treaty can still be considered as null and void as per the draft text of this treaty itself. The treaty is a personal contract with Abdur Rahman. The treaty states Britain must continue to pay Abdur Rahman 1.8 laaks per annum in exchange for the frontier lands. The British stopped payment after Amir Amanullah declared the 3rd Anglo-Afghan War on them. The treaty, therefore, is a lease in default. A lease in default that has expired. The treaty was never meant to be an international boundary in the first place to separate the two countries. It purpose was ‘fixing of the limits of their [Amir’s and British India’s] respective spheres of influence’, the object being the extension of British authority and not that of the Indian frontier at that time.

 

Furthermore, if the treaty was a solid, unchangeable, unbreakable, and legally binding document that determined Afghanistan’s boarders with the then British colonial occupiers, then why was there a need for this treaty to be reconfirmed or ratified by the son of Abd Rahman Khan in 1905? It is obvious that Durand treaty was nothing more than a temporary agreement to create a buffer zone for the British colonial occupiers to prolong their grips on the Indian subcontinent for longer than it took and that’s why they wanted to protect their interest by cutting the Afghan territories into two halves till the end of their occupation. Experience has shown that Afghans were their biggest nightmares since they lost and suffered heavily during their wars with them. All they wanted was a breathing space to divide the great worriers. However, when the British left India in 1947 for good, it should have returned Afghan territory at least including the area up to the natural border, the River Indus to Afghanistan. Instead, still dreaming of keeping its colonial interests alive in the subcontinent the British gave this territory to Pakistan, thus creating a double buffer zone between the expansionist Soviet Union and the Indian Ocean. This deprived Afghanistan of direct access to the sea. But this was not the only objective, the British-authored project of Durand Line wanted to achieve. It wanted to separate the Pashtunland by an imaginary line. It would divide not only the land, but would separate families, fathers from sons and brothers from brothers..

 in addtion British wanted to create hatred between Muslim of India(pakistanis) and afghans who have always acted as protector of Muslim of India against Hindus.

 

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  Quote Afghan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Aug-2009 at 20:05

I think by Persian you mean Iranic people... as for as i know NO Kurd, Pashton, Baloch and Pamari likes to be called Persian...except Tajiks whom share Dari/Tajiki/Farsi language with Farsi ethnic of Iran. Moreover there is this tendancy that any person from Iran, here in west claim to be Persian...just beacuse they speak Dari/Tajiki/Farsi language as first language...this is true for most of Tahrani people....for example Andy is a Christian Armanian Iranian....but i heard him on this US tv where he call himself Persian. The same is true with few iranian Kurds whom have become Persianized...while the Kurds of Iraq, and Turkey are proud of their kurdish language and identity.

In short all the Iranic people... Pashton, Tajik, Kurd, Baloch, Pamari and Persian are from samce raciall and cultural background....but its really ignorant to call these Iranic people---Persian.

 

 

 

 

 

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