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Who are Pashtuns?
Pashtuns, also known as Pushtans, Paktuns or Pathans, are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan who comprise 40-50 per cent of the population. Smaller ethnic groups in the country among the 14 recognised include Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras.
Pashtunwali’, blood feuds and tribal council
Central to the Pashtun way of life is the ‘Pashtunwali’ code of honour that stresses personal autonomy. A key facet of this code is blood feuds or retaliatory killings that continue between families and tribes for generations.
“Not seeking blood retaliation personally is deemed a sign of moral weakness, even cowardice, not just of the individual who was wronged, but his whole kin group,” wrote US-based social anthropologist Thomas Barfield in a 2003 research paper titled Afghan Customary Law and Its Relationship to Formal Judicial Institutions.
Blood feuds cannot operate in societies with government control. Therefore, those living in marginal rural lands away from state control see themselves as “true Pashtuns”, who can uphold the strict standards of Pashtunwali, added Barfield.
Decisions are taken and disputes resolved only through consensus at a tribal council or ‘jirga’, and its participating members are usually the older respected men and religious figures of a village like mullahs. Women and children aren’t allowed, as pointed out by Country of Origin Information Center ‘Landinfo’, an independent body that works with the Norwegian immigration authorities.
Hospitality, defence of property, and protection of female relatives are other important principles for Pashtuns.
https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/who-are-pashtuns-afghan-majority-with-countless-tribes-that-imran-khan-got-wrong/737916/?amp
Pashtuns, also known as Pushtans, Paktuns or Pathans, are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan who comprise 40-50 per cent of the population. Smaller ethnic groups in the country among the 14 recognised include Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras.
Pashtunwali’, blood feuds and tribal council
Central to the Pashtun way of life is the ‘Pashtunwali’ code of honour that stresses personal autonomy. A key facet of this code is blood feuds or retaliatory killings that continue between families and tribes for generations.
“Not seeking blood retaliation personally is deemed a sign of moral weakness, even cowardice, not just of the individual who was wronged, but his whole kin group,” wrote US-based social anthropologist Thomas Barfield in a 2003 research paper titled Afghan Customary Law and Its Relationship to Formal Judicial Institutions.
Blood feuds cannot operate in societies with government control. Therefore, those living in marginal rural lands away from state control see themselves as “true Pashtuns”, who can uphold the strict standards of Pashtunwali, added Barfield.
Decisions are taken and disputes resolved only through consensus at a tribal council or ‘jirga’, and its participating members are usually the older respected men and religious figures of a village like mullahs. Women and children aren’t allowed, as pointed out by Country of Origin Information Center ‘Landinfo’, an independent body that works with the Norwegian immigration authorities.
Hospitality, defence of property, and protection of female relatives are other important principles for Pashtuns.
https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/who-are-pashtuns-afghan-majority-with-countless-tribes-that-imran-khan-got-wrong/737916/?amp
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