Pashtunistan (or Pakhtunistan) is the
Pashtun -dominated area of
Afghanistan and
Pakistan . The Pakistani (and formerly
British Indian ) part comprises an area from Chitral
(in the north of Pakistan) to Sibi (in
the southwest). This area in Pakistan is referred
to as the
North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) but is also known as
Afghania (indicating their ethnic likeness with the Afghanistani
Pashtuns).
The leaders in northern Pashtunistan are Khan
Wali Khan Ajmal Khatak Asfandyaar Khan Afzal Khan
Moulana Fazal-ur-Rehman Afrasiab Khattak and the Pashtun leaders
in southern Pashtunistan are Mehmood Achakzai Nawab Ayyaz
Khan kakar Moulana Sherani and Naseer Kakar of
PML-N.
Pashtuns practice
Pashtunwali the indigenous religion of the Pashtuns.
The Pashtuns also called Pukhtoons and Pakhtuns
are separated by the
Durand Line a nearly arbitrary border between Afghanistan
and Pakistan. The Pashtuns have since
1947 struggled to reunite their lands from
the colonial actions of the past.
