My Pashtuns

Halfway around the globe, there is a place called the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, seven so-called tribal "agencies" along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan where about six million of the most independent humans on the planet live on 27,000 square kilometers of rugged and inhospitable terrain.

They are the Pashtuns, and they have lived on their lands without interruption or major migration for about 20,000 years. They know their neighborhood very well, and their men have been armed to the teeth since the first bow was strung. Their ancient code involves a commitment to hospitality, revenge and the honor of the tribe. They are invariably described as your "best friend or worst enemy."

In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great fell afoul of Pashtun tribesmen in today's Malakand Agency, where he took an arrow in the leg and almost lost his life. Two millennia later the founder of the Mogul empire, Babur, described the tribesmen of the area now known as Waziristan as unmanageable; his main complaint seemed to center on his inability to get them to pay their taxes by handing over their sheep, let alone stop to attacking his armies. A couple of hundred years later, in the middle of the 19th century, the British experienced disaster after disaster as they tried to bring the same Pashtun tribes to heel, particularly in the agencies of North and South Waziristan.

The Soviet adventure in Afghanistan began on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1979, and took a decade to cycle through, ending in exactly the same fashion as all the other foreign enterprises in that land — with failure. It was in the territories to the west of zero line, in the lands of the Wazirs, the Mahsuds, and the Ahmadzais, that the Soviets repeatedly failed in their attempts to establish their authority.

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[zebust]

Pokhton u r out of here....

[zebust]

@ Pokhton

be careful while talking...i did not make this video so that hate mongers like u (with false sense of pride) spit their venom.... i made it caz i love my people, be it from afghanistan or Pakistan.... this shit country (as u refer to it), has taught me some manners(which u might not hav learned from ur rugged land).. otherwise it does not take guts to use foul language, specially wen u r sitting safe behind ur computer screen...

[AFGHANVIEW]

why you put zalmay khalilzad and karzai picture in there?

[zebust]

caz they are pashtuns...

[bilasahib]

very refreshing to see a logical thought provoking video keep it up mate thnx.

[AkaAfghanBaller]

long live lions of pashtunistan

HATE US OR LOVE US WE ARE ALLWAYS

PASHTUNS AND ALLWAYS WILL BE!!!

[Basit30111986]

Pashtuns are also in Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Baluchistan not just FATA

[Basit30111986]

Great video, keep it up

[zo0mmax]

hey thax fr uploading such nice vid

[HANDSOMEISHERE]

safe bro, luv it

[sohaillll]

nice song great pathan

[Curious3guy]

Thats the spirit.

[ceramic57]

Al-Quran

49:13 O Mankind! Behold, We have created you male and female, and have

made you nations and tribes so that you might (affectionately) come to know

one another. Verily, the most honored among you, in the Sight of Allah, is the

one who lives most upright.

ENOUGH SAID!

[ceramic57]

Al-Quran

49:13 O Mankind! Behold, We have created you male and female, and have

made you nations and tribes so that you might (affectionately) come to know

one another. Verily, the most honored among you, in the Sight of Allah, is the

one who lives most upright.

ENOUGH SAID!