History of the Pashtun people
Inayatullah, a native of Baramulla and eyewitness to the Pashtun invasion of Kashmir in 1947, was interviewed by Andrew Whitehead in 1997. 1-He dismissed the claim of 3,000 people being killed by raiders in Baramulla as false and revealed that few people (non-Muslims) were killed by them. 2- Baramulla was largely empty of people when … Read more
Persian text stitched onto the shawl, which reads: یا حسین فرمایش نواب اشرف والا محمد عظیم خان ‘O Hussain; ordered by the most noble governor Nawab Mohammed Azim Khan’ Mohammed Azim Khan Barakzai was one of the last Pashtun governors of Kashmir, between c. 1813 and 1819. He was a younger brother of Fath Ali … Read more
Sardar Abdullah Khan Alkozai (or Alakozai) served as the governor of Kashmir for the Durrani Empire from 1796 to 1800. He then ruled Kashmir independently from 1802 to 1807. In 1798 he commissioned a richly illustrated manuscript of Pashto diwan of Rahman Baba. It is dated to 14th October 1798 and has 47 illustrations. One … Read more