#Pakistan Studies

[wormsngods]

Pakistani Mormons

Managed to reach out and get in contact with probably the only mormons in Pakistan! Going to contact them at their number and request a copy of the Book of Mormon, D&C and the Pearl of Great Price. Hopefully the number is active and things go amicably. Wild.

[discoursets]

“Kasuri also gives us a rare insight into the minds of the Pakistan Army, the contribution of the Foreign Office and his warm but complex relationship with President Musharraf. Blending analysis with choice anecdote, Neither a Hawk nor a Dove gives us a comprehensive and revealing account of Pakistan’s politics and the political compulsions of those at the helm.” 🌱

[comparatist]

29.09.23

~ september nearly ends. october starts in 48 hours. here's me having a nice coffee break.

to/dos:

1. go through net paper 1 in ten days - notes, revision.

2. finish reading urvashi butaliya by tomorrow.

3. plan net paper 2.

4. start writing the papers due in october, november, december.

5. read for that annoying supplementary test.

|| currently reading- the other side of silence: voices from the partition of india, urvashi butaliya

[deadoveater]

cant believe how easily people fall for propaganda. like at one point you have to take responsibility for being an absolute moron and stop blaming everything on education and culture unless youre from like, fucking n korea.

[classicschronicles]

Hi lovelies,

A few days ago this new Bollywood movie called Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan and John Abrahams, came out and so obviously I HAD to go and watch it. But fun fact about me is that I am literally a melting pot of different cultures. My dads family are Indian-Kenyan. My mums family were initially (back in the 5th-7th century) a family of Jewish royalty in what is now Afghanistan (which is actually pretty cool). They converted to Islam some time later and became part of a very particular Afghani tribe called the Pathaan (also another reason I had to watch this movie). Over the course of the next few centuries they migrated from Afghanistan to India, before being forced into Pakistan because of colonialism. Throughout all of this, my mums branch of the Pathaan tribe stuck together and so even still, my mum’s family in pure Pathaan, but I’m only half Pathaan because my mum married out. However, me being me did some deep diving into this because it’s actually pretty cool that my family tree can be traced back that far. Okay so at this point you’re probably wondering how on earth this related to Classics, but I found out that the Pathaan langue (Pashto) is actually about 2500 years old, which makes it about the same age as Latin and therefore a classical language! And so today I thought I would tell you a little bit about Pashto.

The Pashto language belongs to the Indi-Iranian language family and is mainly spoken by the ethnic communities of Afghanistan and western provinces of Pakistan, which is partially inhabited by Pashtuns (aka Pathaan’s). It is also still the native language of the indigenous Pathaan people. The language is said to have originated in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan and is said to be one of the two national languages (the other being Dari, a Persian language).

The vocabulary of Pashto has actually not been borrowed or derived from other languages, which is extremely rare for any language still spoken in a modern setting. Many of its lexis do, however, relate to other Eastern Iranian languages such as Pamir and Ossetia.

The exact origin of the Pashto language and the Pathaan tribes are unknown, but the word ‘Pashto’ derives from the regular phonological process. Nevertheless, the Pathaan are sometimes compared with the Pakhta tribes mentioned in Rigvenda, around 1700-1100 B.C., apparently they are the same people that the Greek historian Herodotus referred to Paktika (a northern province in Afghanistan). However, this comparison appears to be due in large part to the apparent similarity between their names, despite the fact that etymologically it can’t really be justified. But there are some archeological compilations and historical data and so the majority of researchers now believe that the Pashto language is around 25000 years old.

Herodotus also mentions the Paktika ‘Apridai’ tribe but it is unknown what language they spoke. However, Strabo (who lived between 64 B.C. and 24 C.E.) suggests that the tribes inhabiting the lands west of the Indus River were part of Ariana and to their east was India. Since about the 3rd century B.C. and onwards from that, these tribes were mostly referred to by the name ‘Afghan’ (or ‘Abgan’) and their language as ‘Afghani’.

Many historians and scholars believe that the earliest piece of written Pashto work dates back to the 8th century. However, a lot of history outside of the western empires lacks the same clarity and information and so even this is highly disputed. However, during the 17th century, Pashto poetry became very popular amongst the Pathaan.

To be honest, there isn’t a whole lot of information on the Pashtun language or the origin of the Pathaan, other than that they have been around since the B.C. But it’s pretty cool to me that my families culture has such a long history. This entry was pretty special to me so hopefully you all enjoyed it and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend!

~Z

[springtidesnowfall]

checking out census stats for pakistan and seeing thousands of punjabi speaking transgenders marked down on here and feeling something incomprehensible swell up in my chest. despite the distance despite the differences between us i would love to know you all.

[malkusimmigration]

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[spiritual-knowlege]

"The giver of knowledge of the Bible and the Quran is one"

[wormsngods]

17/10/24

• Attended a seminar on the introduction of HPV vaccines in Pakistan.

• Completed Neoplasia

• Attended a QnA session hosted by my gf

• Offered all 5 daily prayers

Reminder to self: Download a good Quran app and start reading the translation

[shawnpgreene]

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[study-in-uk]

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[fazcinatingblog]

I'm so dumb, I bought tickets for me and my friend to tomorrow's derby and thought ooh this bay is cheap!!!! But ticketek says it's a "Pakistan bay" 🤦‍♀️ anyway I used my MCC waiting list code and got (expensive) MCC tickets shhhh money doesn't equal happiness

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