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Pactyans

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It is not Pakhtas but Pakhas. Pactyan was mentiooned by Herodot to desribe the tribe that lived there like he used Persian, Bactrian ect. tHE RIG-VEDA MENTION THE POP THERE AS PAKHAS... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspandyar Agha (talkcontribs) 16:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of this article and article Paktha by admin Dbachmann

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Please refer to your post by which the other article was merged into this one on 15 June 2009 Hope this will further improve this comrehensive article .
I am sure that your stringent standards to impliment the spirit of the wikipedia conventions will be applied to this article in equal measure .

  • Please also incorporate the two short quotes with references from article Paktha which were from
    reliable, secondary , and specificaly related (as the words Pakta appear in the text)sources . But not included in this article currently . I have listed these .
  • I would assume that since you have left reference 3 and 4 in this article untouched , these references are OK ?

Cheers
Intothefire (talk) 03:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

you created your article at a misspelled title. I have redirected it to the proper target. I don't see why we need to add your quotes in particular, or verbatim, since they add nothing to what is already in the article.

There is nothing to be said about the Pakthas than that they are mentioned in two or three places. This doesn't make for an article, an imo this title should just be merged into the "origins" section at Pashtuns. --dab (𒁳) 08:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User Ayousafzai and user EasternAryan

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Through your combined edits viz

you have introduced the term "are an ancient Persian people".

This is unsubstantiated , and unreferenced specially in relation to the Pakthas .
Unfortunately this is in line with such insertion being made on many Afghanistan related articles .
I am therefore going to reverting these edits unless you are able to substantiate with references from reliable sources.
Intothefire (talk) 05:12, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unexplained edit by 221.120.249.18

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Pakthas or Pakta or Pactyans etymological Pakthun are an ancient people

Intothefire (talk) 03:52, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An Excerpt from an article By Prof. Em. Dr Ahmad Hasan Dani

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Here's an interesting article by Prof Dani that appeared Pakhtunkhwa Times


Intothefire (talk) 06:24, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

He's implying that Pashtuns were living in this area in ancient times which is more than laughable. Akmal94 (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Referenced content from reliable sources removed from this article

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References

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  1. ^ History of Buddhism in Afghanistan By Sī. Esa Upāsaka, Kendrīya-Tibbatī-Ucca-Śikṣā-Saṃsthānam Published by Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 1990 Original from the University of California Page 78
  2. ^ India: from Indus Valley civilisation to Mauryas By Gyan Swarup Gupta Published by Concept Publishing Company, 1999 ISBN 8170227631, 9788170227632Page 199
  3. ^ Colonial NWFP or Pakistani Pakhtunkhwa? Prof. Em. Dr Ahmad Hasan Dani ,Pakhtunkhwa Times

Abdul Ghaffar Khan's quote

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His quote here is implying that Paktha's were living in ancient Gandahara when they were not, only in Eastern Afghanistan as noted by ancient greek scholars. This doesn't make any sense since their were no Pashtun people living in KPK (which was located in Gandahara) since most of them migrated after Islamic conquests and due to expulsion from other tribes. The Yousafzai who make up the majority in Swat claim they came from Northern Afghanistan, basically all Pashtun tribes living in KPK migrated from Afghanistan so Mr. Ghaffar's quote makes no sense.

Therefore i think it should be removed since he was not a historian but a rather a political activist and his work is an unpopular opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akmal94 (talkcontribs) 07:56, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pactyan issues

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Pactyan was a name for those people so they must have been from a place called "Pactya" and Paktia Province is probably named after this.