Talk:Kafiristan

Role of this article
Since Kafirstan is historically continuous with Nuristan, it seems more logical to merge the contents of this article into "Nurestan" or "History of Nurestan", and have "Kafirstan" to be a redirect to "Nurestan". Does that make sense? All the best, Jorge Stolfi 19:41, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * If this question is still of interest to anyone, given that almost two years have gone by since the last post... Having had a look at the Nurestan article, I might suggest that, yes, this article ought to be merged into that article. However, in light of the undated, unsigned post below (which came before my post), it seems that Kafirstan may refer to a somewhat larger area than just the Afghan province of Nurestan. Namely, the editor below suggests that there's also a (presumably) adjacent area of Pakistan which would be part of the old Kafirstan. If so, then it might make sense to leave a separate article on the old Kafirstan in existence, but, perhaps, to make it more historical in focus. National Geographic did an article on Kafirstan some years ago. I was sorry to see that there was not more information in this article (and, for that matter, in the Nurestan article) about the survival among at least some Kafirstanis of the pre-Islamic, apparently animist religious practices for which their area was named. I would especially have liked to find information (which, granted, may not readily be available) on how well their religious practices have survived the Taliban time, if at all. Xenophon777 15:51, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Having been to Kafirstan on 3 occasions I was a little dissapointed with the content here. some of it was innaccurate and it didnt even mention the fact that Kafiristan currently exists in Pakistan! and is a major tourist attraction there! furthermore, when I went there, I met several officials from Greece, that had established schools and uplift programs in the region. Can someone tell me if I can possibly upload some of my own personal pics here of the region that i've taken? is that allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.63.161.200 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 20 June 2007

My friend, the Kalash Valleys were never part of Kafiristan the Kalash have been subjects of H.H. The Mehtar of Chitral for hundreds of years and that area is an integral part of Chitral. The term Kafiristan is errouneously used to refer to the Kalash Valleys and this ia a offensive practice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.99.177.219 (talk) 22:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Kafiristan from Kapish
Could this be an example of Phono-semantic matching? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching 122.169.35.148 (talk) 10:26, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Notes on the Chugani and neighbouring tribes of Kafiristan  By H. C. Tanner
free images

http://books.google.com/books?id=_1MIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=UFAYLBSCbRsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 18:01, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Effect of conversion
"After declining population figures because of forced conversion" makes me wonder how, in general, forced conversion causes declining population. Are we humans less prolific after conversion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gil Dawson (talk • contribs) 06:55, 20 November 2015 (UTC)