Pashtuns
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Arab Fathers are not fabrications (entirely)
Answering BB’s claim that Pakistanis invent foreign fathers, the author argues South Asian Muslims are not one block: Pashtuns, Baloch, Hazaras and Sayyids carry foreign ancestry the genetic record supports,…
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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Not All Our Ancestors Were “Just Hindu”
X.T.M rejects the claim in Aslan Pahari’s videos that Pakistanis’ pre-Islamic ancestors were uniformly Hindu. He argues the pre-8th-century Indus region was layered and regional, with Buddhists in Sindh, later…
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Pakistan Is Not About to Break Apart
X.T.M argues predictions of Pakistan’s imminent break-up are confirmation bias, since Pashtuns are integrated into the state and economy and states collapse only when elites defect, borders become porous and…
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The Pakistani Inferiority Complex
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s elite is marked by an inferiority complex towards Arab, Turkish, Persian and Afghan Muslims, which he links to the country’s low human development and its anxieties…
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The Aryan Cleft: Pakistan as the Cradle and Cusp of Indo-Iranian Civilisation
X.T.M argues that Pakistan sits at the hinge of the Indo-Iranian world, where Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages and Bronze Age migrations meet, and that British canal colonies abruptly turned a…
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“Mimicstan”: the burden of Purity from Pagan origins
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s Anglo-Urdu elite is a ‘mimic elite’ that imposed a post-colonial ideology of rupture from the subcontinent, suppressing Pashtun, Baloch and Bengali identities, and contrasts it with…
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“I’m not white, I’m Pakistani.”
Comments on a viral clip of a woman saying she is Pakistani, not white. The author reads it as showing how assimilated Muslims are in the English-speaking world, and argues…
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Do Pakistanis eat this much red meat?
Struck by a dinner menu with no vegetarian option, X.T.M asks whether Pakistanis eat this much red meat, quotes a comment tying carbohydrate-heavy menus to Pashtun and Afghan areas, and…
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Mr. Tilak Devasher on his book The Pashtuns- A Contested History
A BrownCast in which Tilak Devasher, author, National Security Advisory Board member and former Special Secretary, joins Maneesh, Somnath and Dr Ali to talk about his latest book, The Pashtuns:…
