Influences of Radicalization on Pashtun Culture From Era 1979 till onwards
Keywords:
Radicalization, Pashtun Culture, State Policies, Afghan Jihad, Kalashinkov Culture, Religion, Pashtunwali, Jirga SystemAbstract
Each culture has its own traditions, qualities and customs which
makes them unmistakable from different societies of the people. The
Pashtuns have a different and a specific way of life which is named as
"Pashtunwala". It is the set of principles of Pashtuns that characterizes
each activity of the general population and aides each part of their life
whether that is social, cultural, economic and political. While, the term
radicalization in its exacting sense implies a procedure in which
individuals receive extraordinary perspectives or position including
measures that should be taken for religious and political intentions to
be actualized and taken after. Especially, amid the period of 1979 when
there was the rule of Zia-ul-Haq, there were a ton of parts of the Pashtun
culture that were affected in its essence from the policies of that time. It
revised and changed the hundreds of years long customs and services of
Pashtun culture into a radicalized shape. Along these lines, thusly
radicalization influenced the Pashtun culture and was infused with its
components.
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