Origon Pukhtun

Welcome/Staray Mashay to Pakhtun Here you will also find a collection of articles about the Pakhtuns regarding their origins, history, culture and traditions known as the Pashtuns/Pashtoons or Pathans, are also known as Pakhtuns or Pukhtuns where they live.Native Pakhtun AreasThe main idea for Pakhtun.com is to introduce to the world this great nation currently under siege of religious fanatics. The Pakhtuns or Pashtuns (for people having difficulty...

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The Code of Pashtunwali

The Code of Pashtunwali Pashtunwali is an unwritten law and ideology of the Pashtun society inherited from their forefathers. It is a dominant force of Pashtun culture and identity. Pashtunwali is conservative, oligarchic, centuries old but still a young phenomenon in the Pashtun culture and socio-economic structure.[citation needed]It has been able to maintain a powerful dialectical balance of the Pashtun society. Pashtunwali, a complement...

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Badar Munir

Badar Munir  Badar Munir was born in a small village Shagram in Madyan, Swat in 1942. His father Maulvi Yaqoot Khan was an Imam (prayer leader) of the village mosque. He hailed from the Mian Khel tribe of Pakhtuns. Being from a poor family, he was sent of to Karachi when he grew up. He started earning livelihood as a rickshaw driver.At that time Karachi, like Lahore had plenty of movie studios. Badar Munir got his first taste of movies...

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Ali Haider Joshi

Ali Haider Joshi INTELLECTUALS, poets and philosophers have a profound impact on literature and on people’s thinking. When they die, they continue to live on in the hearts of the masses. Their death marks a new phase in their life — their physical presence ends but their work keeps their name alive. The legendary Pushto poet, Ali Haider Joshi, was one such personality who died on January 6 after a prolonged illness and was buried in Ismalia...

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Qalandar Momand Baba

Qalandar Mohmand Born as Sahibzada Habib-ur-Rehman and known as Qalandar Momand, this genius Pashtun writer, poet, critic, linguist, research scholar, play-writer, journalist, lexicographer, academician, the founder chairman of Peshawar Press Club, and great Pashtun died on Feb. 04, 2003, in Peshawar. The sad news of his demise reached us through an Urdu newspaper in Karachi which was profoundly felt in the literary circles, activities and...

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Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal Facts A leading Afghan Marxist, Babrak Karmal (1929-1996) became Russian puppet ruler of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan after the Russian invasion in December 1979 until his resignation "because of ill health" on May 4, 1986.Babrak Karmal (roughly translated "labor-loving little tiger") was born into a wealthy Afghan family near Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, January 6, 1929. His father, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hussain, was...

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Beutiful Chitral Gallery and short History

History of chitral  Short History of ChitralThe Early history of Chitral is shrouded in mystery.This mountainous country which was first referred to as Kohistan or land of the mountains was said to be inhabited by a race called "Khows" speaking a separate language Khowar, or language of the Khows. Some people say that it was Khowistan - the abode of the Khows. Separate parts of the country came to be called Torkhow - Upper Khow, Mulkhow...

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Noor Mohammad Tarakai

Noor Mohammad TarakiBy Afghanland.com: Taraki, Noor Mohammad born July 15, 1917, Ghazni province, Afghanistan died October 9?, 1979, Kabul Afghan politician who was president and prime minister of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979. Born into a rural Pashtun family, Taraki attended night school while working as a clerk in Bombay, India, where he learned English. In the late 1940s he worked in the press department of the Afghan government and in 1953...

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Nazo Ana afghanistan

Nazo Tokhi, known mostly as Nazo Ana or Nazoo Anaa (Pashto: نازو انا‎; 1651 – 1717) was a prominent Pashtun female poet and a literary figure of the Pashto language.[1] Mother of the famous early-18th century Afghan King Mir Wais, she grew up in an influential family in the Kandahar region.[2] Nazo Tokhi is remembered as a brave woman warrior in the history of Afghanistan, who eventually became the legendary "Mother of Afghan Nation".[3][4]Contents...

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Nazo Ana afghanistan

Nazo Tokhi, known mostly as Nazo Ana or Nazoo Anaa (Pashto: نازو انا‎; 1651 – 1717) was a prominent Pashtun female poet and a literary figure of the Pashto language.[1] Mother of the famous early-18th century Afghan King Mir Wais, she grew up in an influential family in the Kandahar region.[2] Nazo Tokhi is remembered as a brave woman warrior in the history of Afghanistan, who eventually became the legendary "Mother of Afghan Nation".[3][4]Contents...

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