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Muhammad Zai Khan
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Monday, June 28, 2010
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Assaulting the Pakhtun culture
The Pakhtun culture is reflected in Ghaffar Khan’s non-violent movement, in the mysticism of Rahman Baba’s poetry and in the romanticism of Ghani Khan’s poetry. This is a society that produced hundreds of anti-Taliban lashkar leaders all over Pakhtunkhwa who were target killed because they insisted that Talibanisation is the antithesis of
Pakhtun culture
Essentialism means that people have an intrinsic ‘essence’ that never changes. Social scientists agree that all human relations and activities that come under the socio-cultural realm are open to changes in accordance with the changing requirements of time and circumstances.
The Pakhtun have been assaulted with essentialism in literature and media. A latest example is Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed’s article ‘The 1947-48 Kashmir War’ (Daily Times,...
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
ghani khan baba
Raba za che de paida kram zama mina ma la raka..
Ya da swal zama kabul ka ya wapas me da dunya ka..
Da Laila de spin bashar ta hawsale me kharabege..
Ya da makh pa khawro pat ka ya ambaar khawri pama ka..
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Raba ta ta me da swal de pa de dwao ke yava uka..
Ya lahad ta me varkoz ka ya pura arman zama ka..
(Ghani Ba...
khyber pukhtoonkhwa budget
Provincial Finance Minister Khyber Pukhthunkhwa Engr. Humayun Khan Saturday presented Rs.294.2 billion balance budget for the year 2010-11 containing Rs 69.3 billion annual development program, indicating 77 percent rise over the outgoing fiscal in the provincial assembly.
The total revenue expenditures and income generation have been estimated at Rs 294.2 billion for the next fiscal, said the provincial Finance Minister in his budget speech.
Giving details of the receipts to be obtained in 2010-11, he said the province would receive Rs.123.4 billion from the central taxes, Rs 9.4 billion income expected from oil and gas royalty, Rs 6 billion net hydel profits apart from Rs 25 billion to be received by the province upto July 2010 as net hydel profit arrears.
Rs 15.2 billion special...
Friday, June 11, 2010
ahmad shah abdali
ستا د عشق له وينو ډک سوه ځېګرونه
ستا په لاره کې بايلي زلمي سرونهتا ته راسمه زړګی زما فارغ سي
بې له تا مې انديښنې د زړه مارونهکه هر څو مې د دنيا ملکونه ډير سي
زما به هېر نسي دا ستا ښکلي باغونهد ډهلي تخت هيرومه چې را ياد کړم
زما د ښکلي پښتونخوا د غرو سرونهد رقيب د ژوند متاع به تار په تار کړم
چې په تورو پښتانه کا ګوزارونهد فريد او د حميد دور به بيا سي
چې زه کاندم پر هر لوري تاختونهکه تمامه دنيا يو خوا ته بل خدا يې
زما خو خوښ دي ستا خالي تش ډګرونهاحمد شاه به دغه ستا قدر هير نه کا
که ونيسي د تمام جهان ملکونه ...
Entreaty [with English translation] ghani khan
na may sta da nari shudi dy pakar
na da zulfi wal pa wal laka khamar
na da bati pashan danga ghari ghwaram
nargasay stargy na daki da khumar
na ghakhuna dy laluna da adan
na nangy dak sara sara laka anar
na pasti da sarindy pa shan khabari
na wajood laka da saar way mazadar
khu bas yow shai rata ra ukhaya dilbara
da lala pashan zargy ghawaram daghdar
yow dawa ukhaqi chi da ghum ao muhabat way
lakuno laluna dy karam zaar
Poems - translation
I do not need your red sculpted lips,
Nor hair in loops like a serpent,s coils
Nor a nape as graceful as a swan,s,
Nor narcissus eyes full of drunkenness,
Nor teeth as perfect as pearls of heaven,
Nor cheeks ruddy and full as pomegranates,
Nor a voice mellifluous as a sarinda,
Nor a figure as elegant as a poplar,
But show me just this one...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
charta khushe shan sehra way yaw rabab me tangawale.yaw shpunke way da ghra sar way bas shpelay me ghaghawale.da hpal gham sara mashghol way da dunya na naa khabar way.da belton sawae tapo ke hpal janan me yadawale.hpal zan sara lagia way da dunya na gila mand way.na me kar da cha pa kar way hpal qesmat me jarawalay.pa de khushi shan sehra ke shne kamare me takya wy.nast way dob pa tasawar ke me sherona joraw...
Saturday, June 5, 2010
KHAN ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN (BAACHA KHAN) AW DA HAGHA DA ZWAND HALE ZALE.
KHAN ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN (BAACHA KHAN) AW DA HAGHA HALE ZALE...
Although quite a few biographical studies are available on Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Baacha Khan, they are primarily centred on his personality and the various stages of his relations with the Indian National Congress (INC). In this paper, an attempt has been made to study and analyse objectively, the life, times and struggle of Baacha Khan for its own sake independently, emphasising particularly his role in the freedom movement, the revival of Pashtoon nationalism and the adoption of non-violence in the Pashtoon society. Baacha Khan’s role as a social reformer, an educationists and finally as a politician would also be discussed. The present study is distinguished from others as mainly primary source material...
