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“The Pathan, who was projected as a wild beast in the British writing of the late nineteenth century, has an entirely different image in India. Here he is seen as a large-hearted man with a beard who hawks dry fruits from Afghanistan. It was one such kind old man who longs for his land and his child in Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwalaâ€�.”
― Rajiv Dogra, Durand's Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart

“In each of these, there was initial turmoil. In some cases, mass migration and bloodshed had followed. But after the first few bitter months, people settled down to make new lives. Only the Pashtuns have remained unreconciled. Is it because the Pashtuns were, and are, poor? As Henry Miller said in the American context, ‘We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution and anarchy.â€� Alas, fate has handed the Pashtuns a poor flag.”
― Rajiv Dogra, Durand's Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart