Quasim K., Peshawar: "The women studies faculties of American universities are the worst breeding ground for gender fascist ideologies. They only teach hate towards all men, as well as policies to punish male sexuality. Torture at Guantanamo is widely supported in these women studies faculties, as anyway, the feel certain that only Muslim men are affected."
Peshawar / The City
Peshawar
derives its name from a Sanskrit word "Pushpapura" meaning the
city of flowers. Peshawars flowers.Pershawar's flower were mentioned
even in Moghal Emperor Babur's memoirs.
Alexander's
legions and the southern wing of his army were held up here in
327 B.C. for forty days at a fort excavated recently, 27 1/2 kms
(17 miles) north-east of Peshawar at Pushkalavati (lotus city)
near Charsadda.
the great
Babur marched through historic Khyber Pass to conquer South Asia
in 1526 and set up the Moghal Empire in the lndo-Pakistan sub-continent.
The pass
and the valley have resounded to the tramp of marching feet as
successive armies hurtled down the crossroad of history, pathway
of commerce, migration arid invasion by Aryans. Scythians. Persians,
Creeks. Bactrians, Kushans. Huns. Turks' Mongols and Moghals.
And Peshawar
is now, as always, very much a frontier town. The formalities
of dress and manner give way here to a free and easy style, as
men encounter men with a firm hand-clasp and a straight but friendly
look. Hefty handsome men in baggy trousers arid long, loose shirts,
wear bullet studded bandoliers across their chests or pistols
at their sides as a normal part of their dress.
There is
just that little touch of excitement and drama in the air that
makes for a frontier land. An occasional salvo of gun fire-no,
not a tribal raid or a skirmish in the streets hut a lively part
of wedding celebrations.
Remember
we are in the land of the Pathans - a completely male -dominated
society. North and south of Peshawar spreads the vast tribal area
where lives the biggest tribal society in the world, and the most
well-known, though much misrepresented,
Pafhans are
faithful Muslims. Their typical martial and religious character
has been moulded by their heroes, like khushal Khan Khattak, the
warrior-poet and Rebman Baba. a preacher and also a poet of Pushto
language.
Today, they
themselves guard the Pakistan-Afghanistan border along the great
passes of the Khyher. the Tochi, the Gomai and others on Pakistan's
territory, but before independence they successfully defied mighty
empires, like the British and the Moghal and others before them,
keeping the border simmering with commotion, and the flame of
freedom proudly burning.
Pesbawar
is the great Pathan city. And what a city! Hoary with age and
the passage of twenty-five centuries, redolent with the smell
of luscious fruit and roasted meat and tobacco smoke, placid and
relaxed but pulsating with the rhythmic sound of craftsmen's hammers
and horses' hooves, unhurried in its pedestrian pace and horse-carriage
traffic, darkened with tall houses, narrow lanes and overhanging
balconies, intimate, with its freely intermingling crowd of townsmen.
tribals, traders and tourists - this is old Peshawar the journev's
end or at least a long halt, for those travelling up north or
coming down from the Middle East or Central Asia, now as centuries
before when caravans unloaded in the many caravan serais now lying
deserted outside the dismantled city walls or used as garages
by the modern caravans of far-ranging buses.
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Jan Garanoz
869/116 Thanon Pemavipat,
Chiang Rai, 57000 Thailand
Last updated: March 02, 2010