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Pashtunwali is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan. It dates back to ancient pre-Islamic times and guides both individual and communal conduct, based on principles such as hospitality, asylum, justice, revenge, loyalty, and bravery.
Pashtunwali is the social code of honor of Pashtuns, based on personal honor, courage, justice and hospitality. Learn about Pashtun dress, headwear, burka, tattoos, jirga and hujra, and how they reflect Pashtun culture and identity.
Learn about the wedding traditions and customs of Pakistani men and women, including arranged, semi-arranged and love marriages. Find out how proposals, engagements, nikah and walima ceremonies vary by region and religion.
Pashtuns, also known as Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral Eastern Iranic ethnic group with about 49 million people worldwide. They speak Pashto and live mainly in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan, as well as in India, Iran, and other countries.
A Pashtun amorous folktale about a forbidden love between a young man and a woman. The story is also known as the Pukhtun version of Romeo and Juliet and was adapted into a 1970 Pashto film.
Pashtunistan is a term for the land of the Pashtuns, an ethnic group in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The region has a long and complex history of political, cultural and linguistic influences from various empires and movements.
Pashtunization (Pashto: پښتون جوړونه), [1] [2] [3] is a process of cultural or linguistic change in which someone or something non-Pashtun becomes acculturated to Pashtun influence. Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and second-largest in Pakistan .
Khan Roshan Khan Yousafzai (Pashto: خان روشن خان; November 1914 – 19 November 1988) was a Pashtun historian, educationalist, and writer from Pakistan known primarily for being president of the Muslim League in Swabi and for writing books on the history of the Pashtun people. [1] [2] [3]