When you are starting your journey on how to learn Pashto, the very first thing you need to master is the "identity" ending. In the KPK dialect , especially the way we speak in Kohat , the verb usually comes at the very end of the sentence. This is where the rules of Yam and Yu come into play. The word Yam (یم) is used exclusively for yourself. Whenever you start a sentence with " Za " (meaning I), you must finish it with "Yam." It functions like the word "am" in English. For instance, if you want to tell someone you are fine, you say "Za kha yam." Whether you are hungry, tired, or happy, as long as you are talking about yourself, "Yam" is your anchor. It is a simple pattern that builds immediate confidence in your speaking ability. On the other hand, we have Yu (یو). This is the plural form used when you are talking as a group. In our culture, the "we" is often more important than the "I...
Pakistanis are amazing people. When they realize their full potential, they go nuclear on their own. Make fighter jets. Win sports world cups. However, they have a fair share of useless and gross habits. Pakistan would be better off without these:
1. Spitting in every nook and corner
One of the grossest things you would experience in Pakistan is the patches of saliva almost everywhere. The habit isn’t limited to the uneducated folks, even the well-off and educated people indulge in this gross habit. Some spit the Naswar balls, others the ground Chhalya, and the rest, the Pan. Besides having these sweet ‘confectionaries’, people feel compelled to prove their masculinity by hurling the spittle in the most distant trajectories. Believe me, no girl has ever got impressed with this ‘show’ of masculinity.
2. ‘Safai Muhim’ of their noses
You would find some people so engrossed (almost ecstatic) in cleaning their noses and making small balls of boogers that they don’t realize what is happening to the person sitting next to them in a bus, metro, or other public transport. You can’t get over the lingering effect of this Safai Muhim for days, especially when the person also offers a handshake afterward.
3. Sweet Confectionery
You can’t help praising the translator who told you that the betel nuts, chewing tobacco, and Pan (Betel) are in fact “Sweet Confectioneries”. Pathan have chewing tobacco (Naswar). Punjabis have their Pans, while Karachiites blame it to Chhalya, Gutka, Supari, and other “confectioneries”. You find the small green balls of naswar in public washrooms, pan spittle on walls, and minced beetle nuts anywhere.
4. Nit Picking
Taking nit-picking to the next level, some Desi women take it to the next step in socializing when elderly women pick lice and nits from younger women’s hair, literally. Besides, being gross it somehow proves Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Hint: Watch Nat Geo Chimpanzee Documentaries.
5. Time-Wasting at Weddings
While Americans and Europeans are churning out books on time management and utilizing every second with different apps, tools, and software, Pakistanis don’t even give a damn. When one doesn’t have a plan to start the Walima at 8 PM, then why write it on the invitation cards in the first place? The unfortunate guests who somehow come early despite knowing our national habit, keep cursing the host (Dulha) who is sitting in the salon getting his nose hair trimmed.
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