Talk:Saira Shah
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Pakistani categories? edit
Saira Shah's mother is half-Parsee and half-English and her father had a father born in India and a Scottish mother.
So how come we have the categories: Category:British people of Pakistani descent Category:Pakistani filmmakers|S ? EricT (talk) 20:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
- I was wondering that too. They do have relatives in Pakistan, but I think Afghanistan and India have prior claims to Pakistan. Jayen466 22:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I feel it is wrong to write of Saira and her father Idries Shah as being Afghan. Afghan proper is a Pashtun whereas Idries Shah claimed Syed i.e. Arab ancestory as indicated by his surname Shah. Moreover, this family cannot be termed Afghan/Scottish either but Indian/Scottish as they have been resident in India sor many generation. One can be Afghanistani and not be Pashtun as it is a nationality not an ethnic/racial label. Therefore, the term Afghan is retained for Pashtuns of the former NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)and Balochistan in Pakistan - it is represented by the second letter in the name PAKISTAN i.e. Afghania. NWFP which was until 1901 legitimately the Eastern Afghanistan province was incorporated by into British India but to this day the border, known as Durand Line, is challenged by Pashtuns from sides of the dividing line between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In case of Idries Shah and his family they are neither Afghans ethnically nor Afghanistanis nationally. ([User: Moarrikh]) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moarrikh (talk • contribs) 04:04, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
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