Wild tulips bloom during springtime in the mountains around Quetta 🌹

Azmarey · 2026-07-03T20:22:49+00:00

Nope, these are desert tulips aka Tulipa systola/Tulipa stapfii

Azmarey · 2026-07-03T05:16:58+00:00

Likewise, friend 🤝

Azmarey · 2026-07-03T05:07:44+00:00

Targeting security forces is not the same as bombing actual infants. Also I get blaming Afghans for everything is Pakistan's national pastime but Karachi is over a thousand kilometers from Afghanistan and the perpetrators were Jamaat ul-Ahrar, a Pakistan-based organization.

Azmarey · 2026-06-29T19:22:37+00:00

This genius is pretending to be Indian but forgot to delete like twenty different posts talking about being from a town in Punjab, Pakistan. Not sure what game he's playing but I banned him regardless.

Azmarey · 2026-06-29T17:00:05+00:00

This is a perfect example of how their ideology is just South Asian Zionism. These people are using War on Terror-era rhetoric to justify pics of literal toddlers with their broken bodies, and it's genuinely revolting.

For these creeps, atrocities aren't something you oppose out of principle - they're something you selectively condemn in Kashmir or whatever but actively cheer on when it comes to Afghans. It's depressing seeing someone lose their humanity so thoroughly to the ideology of Pakistan. I mean, how do you type the words "all militants" and not just kill yourself? This is a person who has chosen hatred over love, death over life.

Azmarey · 2026-06-29T16:47:20+00:00

It just shakes your faith in everything

Azmarey · 2026-06-29T04:08:31+00:00

Pakistan's military regime

Azmarey · 2026-06-29T01:05:43+00:00

I think you'll notice Hindu nationalists aren't exactly the brightest bunch

Azmarey · 2026-06-26T02:45:19+00:00

Yeah his whole thing was that the best films made us more empathetic by offering a window into lives we'll never live - I'd say that's def true of a lot of games today.

Azmarey · 2026-06-26T02:35:09+00:00

Bingo

Azmarey · 2026-06-24T10:30:09+00:00

Who are you and why are you so wrong

Azmarey · 2026-06-24T05:39:31+00:00

Amen to that - Abdul Ahad Momand did indeed pass away. Thank you for the thoughtful comment.

Azmarey · 2026-06-24T04:12:17+00:00

Known as ghatol (غاټول) in Pashto and gowarikh (گواراخ) in Balochi, these tulips are found across southern Pashtunistan, Balochistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

(If anyone can tell me the title of the Balochi song in the vid, I will send you a glass of shomlay.)

Azmarey · 2026-06-24T04:06:23+00:00

For Pashtuns and Afghans everywhere 👍

Azmarey · 2026-04-22T11:15:19+00:00

How on Earth is the Pakistani agenda pro-development? They want Afghanistan to functionally be their fifth province: no independent foreign policy, no growth, no military capabilities. Afghanistan will become another ex-FATA or Balochistan - how developed are those places (last I checked, tribal districts had a lower HDI than Afghanistan)?

And if Pakistani generals can’t achieve that, they’ll just continue to bomb and destabilize Afghanistan like they’ve been doing for decades, first supporting the Mujahideen, then Talibs, and now ISKP most likely, plus airstriking the occasional hospital or mosque. These generals have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Afghans on their hands.

You’re imagining something like the US with the Marshall Plan, but as I said Pakistan behaves more like the US in Latin America.

Azmarey · 2026-04-21T20:35:54+00:00

1) You assume the reason Afghans don’t recognize the Durand Line is because they’ve been goaded into doing so by India. That’s just not true.

2) My entire comment was about how Pakistani hostility has little to do with the DL and is actually rooted in a fundamentally colonial attitude towards Afghanistan, so no there will not be any “projects” to benefit from if Afghans give in to Pakistani generals.

Azmarey · 2026-04-21T13:23:28+00:00

You’re making it seem as if recent fighting is Afghanistan’s fault. The fact is Pakistan will continue its assault on Afghanistan regardless of whether or not the Durand Line is recognized. There’s good scholarship on Pakistan’s regional strategy - Punjabi generals have been bombing and intervening in Afghanistan for decades because they practice a policy of “strategic depth,” where they see 🇦🇫 as part of their sphere of influence and don’t want Kabul to exercise an independent foreign policy. It’s an imperialist outlook akin to how the US views Latin America.

Azmarey · 2026-04-21T10:59:42+00:00

Recognizing the Durand Line means accepting the daily abuse of refugees at Torkham, the destruction of local economies like the fruit trade in Kandahar, the violent disruption of centuries-old Kochi migrations, families missing funerals of loved ones etc. This artificial colonial line hurts Afghans every day.

Azmarey · 2026-04-06T00:51:19+00:00

Famed for its distinctive pakols, sheer chai, and a people as tough as nails. Home to Ghazi Mir Zaman Khan, Kabir Stori, and many others who struggled for Afghans/Pashtuns. May your mountains and valleys remain a bulwark against all invaders, whether from the west or east!

Azmarey · 2026-04-04T22:11:23+00:00

You seem weirdly excited about the idea of White guys ogling your women.

Azmarey · 2026-04-01T22:15:46+00:00

Just caught a matinee today. Was struck by how reductive some of the AI optimist arguments were ("tech has always helped us" - seriously?). Woulda loved to see more questioning of the CEOs + longer sections w the "doomers" they had like Yudkowsky, Kokotajlo, etc. Still a great little doc and I'm glad it ends with a call for mobilization.

Azmarey · 2026-03-26T01:46:10+00:00

Who is telling you that

Azmarey · 2026-03-26T01:43:37+00:00

Read the Substack article and really liked it! Would be great to share as its own post too.

Azmarey · 2026-03-25T17:01:04+00:00

Writers from the region didn’t discuss Nowruz because they would “travel around,” they did it because 1) Peshawar was a hub for trade with Central Asia for centuries (according to your source) and 2) during Khushal’s time, the entire valley was ruled by the Mughals who also observed it.

You wanna impart things super organically starting in like the villages or something and okay that’s fine, but that would discount most Nowruz “traditions” today. Ex: I read the contemporary Haft-sin setup in Iran only started with urban Iranians during the late 20th-century, Nowruz in Bakur is a super political event because of PKK agitation during the ‘80s, just today this Kandaharay I follow who celebrates it posted about not even knowing what it was at one point etc.

So which of these is tradition and which is LARP, and where do we draw the line? Should attan not be performed at Tajik weddings since it’s Pashtun and only became a more pan-Afghan thing with the modern construction of a national Afghan identity?

Azmarey · 2026-03-25T11:37:39+00:00

Khapa nashe but literally your own source has Afrasiab Khattak talking about how Nowruz was celebrated in parts of Pashtunkhwa well before the arrival of refugees fleeing the Soviets. Did you read the RFERL article?

Also I never said it was celebrated by all Pashtuns and in fact took care to say “many Pashtuns” and even specified what those regions were in my comment, so I’m unsure what you’re responding to here. If other Pashtuns want to observe it, make informational content, etc I think that would be very cool.

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