Monday 21 September 2015

Afghans like Indians or Pakistanis?

What Afghan people thing about India or Pak?:

Omar Naziry, Afghan's reply to this quezyon:

I am afghan so hope I can answer this question. Afghans generally tend to be more friendly with Indians than they are with Pakistani's because from a political perspective Pakistan and its army has done lots of damage to Afghanistan - including being responsible for the creation of the taliban which still plague the country to this day. As some of the comments already mentioned - we love watching bollywood movies and can understand hindi (almost all afghans do) and enjoy the songs. Most afghans will have a collection of songs from bollywood movies (usually the classics from back in the day).

Here is an afghan favorite: 


Edit: Wow over 50K views! I am truly honored. I wanted to edit this answer to share some additional info that I just thought about and that is the influence that India has had on Afghanistan - aside from Bollywood movies a huge influence has also been Indian music. For example the tabla is a standard musical instrument in over 90% of our afghan songs and we prefer learning from Indian Ustads as that is the "authentic experience" for those afghans interested in the art. We also enjoy afghan gazal and qawali very much which is also inspired by Indian ustads. Here is an example of an afghan qawali song - notice the similarities? 


And Afghan Gazal:

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