Kamees Partoog
So i started a major project a few MONTHS ago, i can’t remember when exactly, but it was around mid spring, i impulsivley decided i was going to make myself a hand embroidered shalwar kameez.
I love my shalwar kameez’s, because contrary to popular belief, the shalwar kameez ( or as we call it kamees partoog) is an invention of the pukhtuns, and not of the indians or punjabies.
So i found it extremly funny and ludicrous, when an aquintance of a friend said a ridiculous thing like,”WS, i wouldn’t wear kamees partoog out and about, as i don’t want people to think i am punjabi.”
Well sorry honey, there is a more then a clear difference between the physical features of a Pukhtun and a punjabi.
In all my life, living in a very mixed society, i have never come across a person that ever mistook me for a tour makhey punjabey, rather they would even ask me if i am european, though i clearly do not dress it.
I never really got a chance to speak to that silly lady again, if i do i would probably ask her if she thinks her own mum is punjabi or all her male and female relatives back home are punjabi, just because they wear kamees partoog?
Also, putting aside the whole “Don’t want to look like a punjabi” complex, is it not in our deen (religion) as she was clearly a muslim, that it is forbidden to imitate the non-muslims, so her wearing western clothes, she was commiting a SIN. 
Which is quite funny since she was claiming to be, oh so religious and from a well known religious Swat family, sorry girl the only person i could recall of having the same name as her family was a dam! 
She wasn’t very happy with that.
