An Ancient Land, An Ancient People Along the Khyber Pass

From the NYTimes, in part:

Over the centuries, countless invading forces passed through or near the gorge on their way to the Khyber Pass. Among them were a group of 17,000 British troops and civilians, who were massacred as they beat a retreat from Kabul at the end of the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1842. Dr. William Brydon, who rode into Jalalabad on a horse, was the only European to survive.

The Kabul-to-Jalalabad road was paved for the first time by the West German government in 1960. In the 1980s, it was almost entirely obliterated during the insurrection against the Soviet invasion. In the decade that followed, when the Taliban and other armed groups fought to control the country, the road was a blasted moonscape. The craters were so large that taxis would disappear for minutes at a time, only to reappear as they struggled to climb out.

It was a tough road, and it had its own dangers — stretches of roadway often collapsed or washed away — but speed was not among them. That changed in 2006, when a European Union-backed project finally smoothed the road all the way through. NYTimes You Tube video:

THE ANCIENT PASHTUNS,

A DANGEROUS BEAUTY, A DYING RACE

[Blue eyes, green eyes, white skin, soft eyes, blonde hair, red hair, proud people, brave warriors, holding to their customs. There must be remnants of Israelites hidden in those hills.]

In Their Own Words

THE MEN OF VENGENCE AND HOSPITALITY

OVER 3 MILLION PASHTUNS HAVE DIED IN THE LAST 30 YEARS, FROM THE SOVIET INVASION TILL TODAYS CRUSADERS ON THE LAR O BAR SIDE, OUR BRAVE FIGHTERS HAVE FOUGHT ON ALL FRONTS JUST AS WE BEAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND HIS GREEKS, CHENGIS AND HIS HERDS, MUGHALS AND THEIR MUJRAS THE BRITISH THRICE AND THIER RAJ.THE SOVIET 10 YEARS OF SYSTEMATICAL KILLING OF OVER A MILLION PASHTUNS, AND YET OUR BRAVE PASHTUNS FOUGHT AND DEFEATED THEM.

TODAY THE RESTLESS PASHTUNS YET FACE ANOTHER WORLD POWER, ANOTHER EMPIRE IN OUR GRAVEYARD, ANOTHER MASSACRE OF PASHTUN FATHERS AND BROTHERS, BUT I WORRY NOT OF TODAYS SUPERPOWER IN OUR COUNTRY, FOR THEY WILL COME RUN AWAY FROM OUR FIGHTERS WITH THEIR TANKS AND JETS, BUT FROM WHAT WE WILL DO TO EACH OTHER AFTER THEY LEAVE THE PASHTUNS WILL SOON BE DECLARED A DYING RACE, BECAUSE ALL PASHTUN MEN HAVE THE HEART AND WILL TO FIGHT, BUT NEVER FOR THE SAME CAUSES, OUR TRIBES FIGHT EACH OTHER, OUR MARXIST START MOVEMENTS, AND THROW COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS WITHOUT THE NEED FROM THE RURAL, OUR CONSERVATIVES ARE IGNORANT AND OPPRESSIVE (TALIBAN), OUR DEMOCRATS EXPECT AN UNEDUCATED AND VIOLENT YOUTH, TO UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DEMOCRACY, WHICH WILL NEVER WORK IN THE AFGHAN NATION, FOR OUR CULTURE REJECTS IT, OUR NATIONALIST JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE PASHTUNISTAN ISSUE RATHER THAN INTERNAL CONFLICT.

[Afghan Nation, A Land of Aryans (maybe ancient Israelites)

If only they understood about Ancient Israel, Jewish Heritage, and Israel’s re-emergence in history. Where did these Aryans originate?]

The Beautiful Swat Valley …

A mysterious land, with an equally mysterious conglomeration of peoples. Who will be able to decipher and extract any remnant Israelites?