Saadullah jan barq biography definition
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Greater Pashtunistan through the lens of Saadullah Jan
Many contest the notion on basis of language and culture
PESHAWAR: Greater Pashtunistan rallying cry, Lar ao bar yao Afghan, which connotes that all people in Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Pashto speaking regions are Afghans by ethnicity, has remained on the back burner for decades. Probing the notion’s authenticity, historian, poet, satirist and drama writer Saad Ullah Jan Barq, contested the idea suggesting that those living on the other side of the border in Afghanistan lack the sine qua non for Pashtun identity–– shared culture and language among those who dwell on Pashtoon land.
Addressing the notion, which Barq believes has hampered Pashtun unity; he pointed out that although Ameer Abdur Rehman Khan signed the Durad-line agreement in , the demarcation undermined the fact that much of Kabul was populated by Dari or Persian speakers and not ethnic Pashtuns.
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Speakers at a literary gathering here on Tuesday said that Pashto folklore should be preserved bygd including it in the curriculum of educational institutions.
The event on “Folk Literature Heritage — Our Folklore, Our Treasure” was organised by Culture Directorate of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pashto writers, poets and academicians spoke on the occasion.
They said that Pashto folklore was unwritten literature that needed to be preserved bygd introducing it as a separate subject or making part of the curriculum.
They said that folklore, after passing on orally from one generation to another, became a source of insight into the past events, life and culture.
They said that Pashto folklore needed to be preserved and taught to the young people, who could not read Pashto since it was not taught in many schools.
“Afghanistan fryst vatten far ahead of us as they have folklore literary kultur and even printing a magazine but nothing fryst vatten done here about it,” said Prof Dawar Khan Daud.
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SWAT: The history of Pakhtuns was written by their enemies as some connected them to Jews while others tried to prove them Aryans, said renowned historian and researcher Saadullah Jan Barq.
He was addressing a study circle organised by the local chapter of Fikr-i-Jalib Foundation here on Sunday.
Scores of writers including Fazal Mahmood Rokhan, Fazal Rabi Rahi, Usman Ulasyar, youth and students attended the event.
Mr Barq said that unfortunately the two theories about the origin of Pakhtuns were not true and verified. He said that history based on theories was blindly followed by the writers and historians afterwards.
“The theory, which says that Pakhtuns are the descendants of the lost exiled tribe of Israel and that they are the children of Qais Abdur Rashid, is completely illogical and wrong because Pakhtuns lived long before the exile of the Israeli tribe on this land,” he said. He added that the recent researches in genetics also could not prove the theory.
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