They're Hazaras. We're Pathans.
The Pathans punished an adulterer by forcing a thick
and knobbly thorn twig down his penis.
The Pathans and the Mughals, the Portuguese
and the French and the English together have made this nightmare ever more complex.
If they[Pathans] captured any soldiers other than Muslims, and
especially if the soldiers were Sikhs or British, they would usually castrate and behead them.
This kind of cruelty was not confined to war,
but was as much a part of the Pathans' normal lives as were their sturdy independence.
In Abad Khan' s house,
he was made conversant with the social habits and customs of Pathans so that his social and public behaviour was correct.
And it is this bunch of cheeky but lovable rouges that Ishar leads into the
battle when an army of 10,000 Afghani Pathans turn up at Saragarhi on the 12th of Sept 1897.