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Being on the frontier and mountainous makes Peshawar sound a little like a Alaska. I've read of the Khyber Pass and could see the geography benefit the community economy. Looking at your previous posts, you have put together a good primer of Pakistani cities. Good info for the geographically challenged!

Is Peshawar one of the places where the language of Pushto is spoken?

Yes Pashto is the primary language of Peshawar. Same goes for the province it is in, NWFP and the tribal territory to its east. People also speak Urdu and many speak English, however Pashtu is the native language.

PESHAWAR MAY FALL TO MILLITANTS !!!!!

I knew this will happen, Peshawar could fall to militants is obviously terrifying, Thanks to ANP leadership to decide to release terrorists and hold peace talk with them ,these ignorant thugs and criminal Talibans don’t understand language of dialogue, these coward militants hiding in rat holes should be crushed with iron hand, I don’t buy latest story of Pakistani regime that international mafia is involved in it, No, they are the guys who are on ISI payroll, they are not fighting for Islam but they are indeed damaging name of Islam and killing Pukhtoons. Afghan President Mr. Karzai was right, when he criticized Pakistani regime,HE WAS RIGHT TO SAY THAT he will send troops kill Taliban leaders. Taliban is the creaion of Pakistan government themselves who initially provided them military training, weapons and finances to carry out guerilla warfare against Russians occupation in Afghanistan. After getting support from the feudal warlords in the NWFP tribal belt, the Talibans became more and more stronger. Pukhtoons are the ones who are suffering because of Talibans, these talibans are closing girls schools and destroying music centers. Peshawar is in a state of siege and lets hope not it falls into talibans hands, it seems like Pakistani govt has lost writ and not willing to shoot n kill these talibans and their leaders. If you don't do it then someone else will take care of it, when that someone else will take care they will be marching on your streets. Its the fault of ISI/CIA who hired and trained these militants and make them fight against soviets.
If ANYONE supports these militants then is it in Islam to bomb girls schools, ban women decent and normal activities, To me these talibans are not Muslim at all, ISLAM is a complete code of life and Islam does not allow what Taliban’s wants to enforce. Musharraf failed policies are destroying the whole nation. Musharraf and his cronies are playing double game, there are repo rts,in New classified US documents that mass infiltration of Frontier Corps by Afghan insurgents is helping latest offensive. The Pakistani Frontier Corps has been heavily infiltrated and influenced by Taliban militants, sometimes joining in attacks on coalition forces, according to classified US 'after-action' reports compiled following clashes on the border. Pakistan is in a leaderless drift four months after elections, according to Western diplomats and military officials, Pakistani politicians and Afghan officials who are increasingly worried that no one is really in charge, that is so obvious, there is no way that powerful Pakistani military can’t control these ignorant fanatics, I don’t buy their story that they can’t get and shoot coward militants leaders hiding in rat holes. It is a fact that Pakistan is not interested in the Afghans' welfare? If so, from 1989, the year the Soviets left till 2001/2 (when the US invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11), Pakistan all but turned Afghanistan to rubble by providing arms to its favorites and encouraging them to fight it out amongst themselves, pukhtoon against pukhtoon Why blame the US or Karzai alone when you need to look no further than your own backyard. It would be a shame if Peshawar were to fall. The might of the militant groups operating around Peshawar from one to the other end is all too visible and alarming to ignore, but its also obvious that military, police and others in the govt of Mush never paid attention to this problem, I always said if you don’t control it then there are forces across the border who will control this but then you will not have Jinnah’s Pakistan either. The problem is Mush regime never been sincere to control this situation. Police stations in rural Peshawar have long given up patrolling at night because they are afraid of Taliban’s attacks…what a country, why don’t you just invite India and other neighbors to take over and govern Pakistan? Foreig n Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said in Islamabad on Thursday that There was evidence of presence of both foreign elements and foreign help, ok then make it public, show it to the world. It is a typical statement of Pakistani govt to accuse others but not to take care of the problem. This is just one instance of the state of denial that colors our response to criticism. When radical Muslims from all over the world travel to Pakistan to receive training in bomb-making at madressa‘a, we hold up our hands and claim we are not responsible. Never mind that these training camps are located within our borders, and those running them are well known to our intelligence agencies. When graduates from these camps kill and maim innocent people in the West, pukhtoonistan and Afghainistan, we wash our hands of all responsibility. Similarly, when drugs were a major export from Pakistan, we conveniently blamed the addicts for pushing up demand and prices in the West. When illegal immigrants from Pakistan cross borders all over the world, we claim we can do nothing to halt this traffic. And when supporters of the Taliban cross over into Afghanistan, or when jihadis traverse the Line of Control into Indian Kashmir with or without the connivance of our intelligence agencies, we pretend complete ignorance. About 4,000 Pakistani troops are based near Jandola, but did not interfere during the Taliban attacks on their erstwhile allies. The principle of protecting the population does not seem to be a tactic of the Pakistani army at the moment. Nor does recruiting local support and nurturing their self-defence efforts. You hear nothing about the threat to Peshawar. One has to wonder how the general Pakistani population would react to the fall of Peshawar to a group that slaughters large numbers of people, close down girls schools, ban music and TV, my sources in Pukhtoonistan are telling me that women in kohat are afraid to go outside because of warnings from Talibans, I cannot bel ieve that it would raise the popularity of the central government if the army stood by and did nothing. Is the Pakistani Army really this feeble and feckless? Are they cowards? Or does the problem lie with the Pakistani government and leadership? And if Pakistan is willing to give up its control over the NWFP, why don't they simply cede Kashmir to India ? One wonders if they even would defend Islamabad from the Taliban? Its amazing that Mush regime in Feb 2005 signed a so called peace deal with Batullah mehsud and issued him a licence to kill. The Srarogha agreement virtually handed control of the area to Baitullah as all the checkpoints on the roads were removed and he and his fellow tribesmen were compensated for the human and material losses they had sustained as a result of military operations. Baitullah seems to have taken the opportunity to build up his power base and probably has several thousand battle-hardened fighters. So you are giving control to criminals because your o fficials don’t want to do their job, instead of arresting such people and punishing them, you make peace deals with them.

Bourgeois and elite of Jinnah’s Pakistan are trying to keep Pakhtuns backward and keep them in the dark, the terrorist attacks by bunch of cowards who hide their faces, hiding in rat holes or hide themselves in Burqa are killing innocent Pakhtuns. That will be a biggest disaster if Peshawar falls to Talibans. Its amazing that officials in Pakistan’s Home Department, who evaluate the situation on an almost daily basis, believe declaring a state of red alert is now only a matter of time. “The military, the paramilitary, the constabulary and the police are unable or unwilling to muster enough force to defend the city,” So what this statement tell you??? Or consider the Taliban to be their best counterparts. What the Taliban have done to the Pakistani people is irresponsible and unjust. I want to know why they are doing this, why they are successful, and who has to suffer because of it?" Pukhtoons are better Muslims, they don’t need Saudi wahabiism or talibans to teach them Islam, T o me Talibans are criminals, ignorant and thugs, they are committing crimes against humanity and they must be punished. Peshawar, the city I just can’t forget, ignore; is under dark clouds, under siege by ignorant and barbarians, who wants to impose their views on others, who wants to kill innocents because they don’t think like them. They wants to close girl’s schools because they want to keep Pakhtun nation in dark. They wants to close girl’s schools because they want to keep Pakhtun nation in dark. Peshawar University, the seat of learning for Pakhtuns , received threats to stop co-education. I think its 2008, I wonder what is the level of education, these religious, barbarian mullah and talibans have??? The root of this campaign against female education is fear. The so called Talibans are afraid that if women become educated, they will eventually be uncontrollable by religious dogma and coercion. Educated women would be the death knell of these fanatics. These terrorists are cr iminals and thugs. Islam is a peaceful religion, terrorism is essentially an act of intimidation aimed towards a state for the purpose of achieving political ends. Islam rejects all forms of terrorism and its manifestations. Islam teaches Muslims about love, peace and harmony. It also teaches them to respect other people's religion and faith. Its not like they want people to observe Islamic teachings but it’s a conspiracy against Pakhtuns, people who kill other people with suicide bombs are living under the misconception that they are Muslims, these terrorists are black spot on the name of Islam. What kind of Islam teaches that its okay to blow urself up in the mosques, streets or other gatherings? Talibans are ignorant and know nothing about Islam. Suicide attacks and killing innocent people are horrific acts of genocide similar in psychotic madness as to what surged through the veins of Hitler.

Ze chi pe mayeen yum da agha pukhtunistan de. Tul de ve Pakhtunistan.