IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
After having observed and studied the unique historic circumstances attendant to this region, many questions arise which need answers. Why is the ancient Persian history so hated in northwestern Pakistani regions that it has been so totally obliterated and disowned? We see its effects everywhere — but in ruinous state. What caused this ruin? Matters are so bad, that any Pashtun charlatan can get up safely and confidently declare, for example, that Dehgans are Dards (see picture below). Every competent Iranologist knows what a Dehgan is and was….and every proper anthropologist or ethnographer can tell us about the nature of the Dardic race. Dards were always a part of eastern Persian ruled territories — but they have always been a separate race too.
Why is there an absence of real ethnography at all levels in Pakistan, from government to society? Pakistan is an artificially contrived geopolitical device of the Anglo-American global power strategy, with a dubious agenda — not a natural state outgrowth with the welfare of its citizen as its foremost and sacred objective, so perhaps that explains our last question.
But why did ancient Persians (Tajiks) in the central parts of eastern Khorasan take to wholesale Pashtunisation (or “Sakification”)? I refer to the areas now called eastern Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Lastly — is the Saka-derived Afghan-Pashtun Ethnicity a form of “Tajik”? Many Saka-derived peoples (Pamiris) in Tajikistan are now officially recognised as ethnic Tajiks as per the policies of that modern country. Whereas to a Farsiwan or Persian-speaker from the country called Afghanistan, this Tajikistani proposition may seem repulsive as they have tended so far to regard only Persian speaking people as genuine Tajiks. But our recent revelations about the presence of Pashto-speaking people who term themselves as ethnic Tajiks in eastern Afghanistan and in western Pakistan has certainly upset this view and has complicated the matter.
The Saka-origin Pamiris of Badakhshan are not very influential historically, but they have already caused a recent secessionist civil war in Tajikistan and are now different from what they were previously. Certainly, the major Saka-Parthian composite of Sistan (also called the Sarabani Afghans) has had a profound if degrading political effect on central eastern Khorasan in the last 500 years. That is not witnessed with regard to other Saka-composite ethnicities existing in Gandhara, Bactria and Sogdia.