Tajiks of Wardak

A Tajik who is resisting Afghanism and spreading awareness for other Wardaks to reclaim their true identity

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@drqasimkhan80 Cool story, bro. Nobody in “Afghanistan”wants you except for your own Awghan ilk who are the reason “Afghanistan” is in a state of disrepair. Sharing a country with more of you would make US worse off.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@x0x0lic “Feminist” and “Pashtun” are two of some of the most mutually exclusive words ever. There is nothing “feminist” about a society that kills r*pe victims, marries girls off to old men when they’re young, hides women from public life, & bans girls from getting educated.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@Ab_O_Atash I love that you hold yourself accountable for what you say you’re going to do. I’m not nearly as disciplined enough 😂.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

The bottom line is, Wardak is not a Pashtun province, and Wardaks aren’t Pashtun. A small amount of naqleen came in the 1700s, forced their language and identity on us, and they mixed into the native population. Those naqleen only represent 5-7% of our ancestors.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

Thanks for proving my point. The average Wardak “Pashtun” doesn’t even score 10% Pashtun ancestry. Your own “evidence” shows that we are, in fact, descended from the Tajik natives of Central Afghanistan who were colonized and Pashtunized by naqleen from the south.

[Pashtun @Pashtun_NoCares]

@Saturntjk @TajiksofWardak How is it true? All wardaki pashtuns carry the karlani Ydna marker and im half wardak.
https://t.co/3ElR17O9RK

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

Many Pashtuns have y-DNA markers that are more strongly associated with other ethnic groups. Does that mean that those Pashtuns are suddenly not Pashtun anymore, even when the other 99.9% of their genetic ancestry is clearly Pashtun?

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@Bachefilm_ Most of my family is from Maidan Shar as far as I was told. I think some family came from other areas within the province as well.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

Wardaks aren’t Pashtun. Not a lick of Pashto was ever spoken in Wardak until the late 1700s, we always spoke Persian before that, and our genetics are closer to Tajiks than to anyone else. We were forcefully assimilated by you Awghan cave dwellers from the south.

[Shah @matwarkh_shah]

“Tajiks of Wardak”

Lmaoooo

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@Judgmentaal Because they’re a bunch of confused Pakistanis who are assimilating into a broader “Muslim” identity that is shaped by Arab culture and people: having no identity besides saying “habibi,” going to overpriced Yemeni coffee shops, & driving lavish cars on massive credit card debt.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@whit48128 We’re very hairy. Even our babies are born with full heads of hair and sometimes back hair 😂.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@viprabuddhi @Saatvata @Panchaap_ Yeah bc Pashtun identity is paternally passed down. You could have a single male Pashtun ancestor a long time ago and be “Pashtun.” This is how they easily promoted forced assimilation of Tajiks, other Eastern Iranian people, Dardics, and Hindkos into “Pashtun” identity.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

That’s why Pashtuns nationalists are so confused. Their entire ethnic and tribal identity is centered around descending from one man who started their tribe hundreds or thousands of years ago, so they are confused about who the other 99.99% of their ancestors were.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

The difference between Pashtun nationalists and Tajik nationalists is that Tajiks have a clear and consistent origin story, while every other Pashtun has some different bs story of where Pashtuns came from.

[🌹 @Ziaullahburki44]

Tajik nationalists are funny and bizarre people. That was just a text from Olaf Caroe’s book "The Pathans" about the Jewish origin of Afghans, which is a myth. He took it seriously, requoted it with this shit and then blocked me, even though I don’t even know him .

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

Pashtunization was strong because Pashtun identity is paternal. If you had even just one Pashtun male ancestor hundreds or thousands of years ago, the kids of all the males who descend from that man could be considered “Pashtun.”

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@Bachefilm_ Karlani colonizers from Paktia imposed their identity on us in the late 1700s. Our autosomal DNA shows that we almost entirely descend from the native Persian and Eastern Iranian speakers of Central Afghanistan/Khorasan who were colonized by Awghans.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@Mubariznoori1 Oh but I thought Afghanistan was safer than ever before? 🤔

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

@matwarkh_shah Just like you cherry pick the “Pashtuns” who are assimilated Tajiks, Ormuris, and Pamiris instead of showing us the ones from your Suleiman mountain homeland in Pakistan.

[Tajiks of Wardak @TajiksofWardak]

KPK is not Pashtun land. Pashtuns were migrants to almost everywhere in KPK, especially Peshawar. KPK = stolen Tajik, Hindko, and Eastern Iranian lands. Awghans came from the Suleiman Mountains only & even many “Pashtuns” like Wardaks are Tajiks who were forced to become Pashtun.

[Hafsa Malik @kashmiricanibal]

An Afghan Taliban-affiliated tour guide told a foreign tourist that half of Pakistan, including all of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is Afghanistan and that they (Afghans) don’t recognize the international border.

Maybe giving him a scholarship will change his mind.