Khorasanzameen.net Website Review

KHORASANZAMEEN ON FACEBOOK - خراسان زمین در فیسبوک Hoping for the day that goodness and freedom would lead, and wisdom would light our path towards the Unknown.. we meditate.. This website is dedicated to a variety of issues concerning the land of Afghanistan. The reason for choosing the name Khorasan zameen for this website, which roughly translated means Khorasanian lands or territories, is the fact that beginning from the 5th century A.D. during The Hephthalite Dyna*ty whose kings called themselves Khorasan Khotaay meaning King of Khorasan, till the second half of the 19th century A.D., this land, though much vaster than what it is now, was known as KHORASAN, also spelt KHURASAN, meaning land of the sun(rise). Accoring to various historians, untill the second half of the 19th century A.D., the term Aughanistan or Afghanistan was used only to address some of the southern and south-eastern provinces, whose main inhabitants were of Pashtun ethnicity. The main body of these provinces are now located in NW Pakistan. In other words the term Aughan or its Arabic version Afghan was basically used to point to our Pashtun brothers, also known as Pakhuns. It should be mentioned that originally only the Abdali Pashtuns were called Afghan; the Ghilzais were called Khalaj or Khiljis. But with the pas*age of time, the term Khalaj or Khilji faded out and the name Afghan covered all Pashtun citizens of the country. Even today members of other ethnic groups, who make around two thirds of the population, call our Pashtun countrymen Aughan or Afghan. And they address themselves either with their ethnic names (Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek etc), or they call themselves Afghanistani or Khorasani. Occasionally one also hears the terms Aryan and Bactrian here and there. The process of changing the name of Khorasan to Afghanistan, initiated by the English colonialism, began during the rule of Shah Shuja (1839-1842) and became a bitter reality during the rule of Amir Abdurahman (1880-1901). Our people, no matter what ethnicity they belong to, are still struggling with the bitter