Talk:Laghman Province

Demographics
"Pashto is spoken by 345 villages out of 620 and around 58% of the population. The second most frequent language is Pashaie spoken in 210 villages by a third of the population. Dari is spoken in 57 villages, representing just over 9% of the population." (MRRD Provincial Profile for Laghman Province)  (Ketabtoon (talk) 06:04, 3 September 2009 (UTC))
 * You obviously don't understand English because language is not ethnicity. You are using English language here but your ethnicity is Pashtun so it's stupid how you determine things. You are making a fool outta yourself with all this race related edits that you and some other editors are making. The rest of the world is progressing very fast and laughing at Afghans while you fight meaningless race or ethnicity wars. Nobody even read these Afghanistan related articles because they have more better things to read about. Even Afghans don't read them except the 2 or 3 who edit them.--119.73.3.105 (talk) 15:23, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Where did you come up with the 21% for Tajiks? It clearly mentions that Dari is spoken by only 9% of the population while Pashai is spoken by 1/3 (33.33%) of the population. Since there are no accurate stats available, all wikipedia articles related to Afghanistan are dealt in this manner. The current version of the demographics has sourced both MRRD and NPS and we will be keeping that. Stats provided by MRRD are from Central Statistics Office Afghanistan (with United Nation's assistance) and they are to be used as primary sources if they are available. NPS is a secondary source and it will be only used if original sources like MRRD(CSO) are not available.


 * And we are not here so you can advise us on how to be a good Afghan. (Ketabtoon (talk) 15:47, 5 September 2009 (UTC))
 * Read this. Do you see where it says Tajiks are 21%? MRRD states that Tajiks are one of the major groups so obviously they can't be 9% which is a number of minority. "Around 99% of the population of Laghman lives in rural districts while 1% lives in urban areas. Around 51% of the population is male and 49% is female. The major ethnic groups living in Laghman province are Sapi, Tajik, Nasir, Ibrahimkhail,..." --119.73.3.105 (talk) 16:23, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "And we are not here so you can advise us on how to be a good Afghan"?--119.73.3.105 (talk) 16:29, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "Pashto is spoken by 345 villages out of 620 and around 58% of the population. The second most frequent language is Pashaie spoken in 210 villages by a third of the population. Dari is spoken in 57 villages, representing just over 9% of the population." (MRRD Laghman Provincial Profile)


 * Pashto is spoken by Pashtuns, Pashaie is spoken by Pashai people, Dari is spoken by Tajiks, Hazaras, Pashtuns and other ethnicities as a first language. Based on that, Pashtuns make up 58% of the population, Pashaies make up 33.33% of the population and Dari speakes(Tajiks, Hazars) make up the remaining 9% of the population according to MRRD/CSO/UN


 * MRRD (Government of Afghanistan) is an official source while NPS is a secondary source.  ( (Ketabtoon (talk) 17:16, 5 September 2009 (UTC))
 * You're a POV pusher and that's not how you suppose to do things on Wikipedia. As I explained above both sources (including the Government of Afghanistan) say Tajiks are around 21%. But you rather put their number as 9% because you are another racist. By the way I'm not Tajik, I'm just trying to be neutral here. If we invite a 3rd party here they will agree with me and disagree with you so why are you wasting our time? You're not following the rules of Wikipedia, you're also uploading images under false licenses that do not belong to you. So obviously you are a dishonest person.--119.73.3.105 (talk) 21:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Where does MRRD state that Tajiks are 21% of the total population? Please quote it here.
 * MRRD does state that "The major ethnic groups living in Laghman province are Sapi, Tajik, Nasir, Ibrahimkhail, Hoodkhail, Nuristani, Kharoti, Jabarkhail, Pashayee, Niazi followed by Pashtoons and Gujjars."
 * Now, if you look at the list of major ethnic groups living in Laghman Province, 7 of them are Pashtun tribes (Sapi, Nasir, Ibrahimkhel, Hoodkhel, Kharotai, Jabarkhel, Niazi) + Pashtoons. It doesn't say anything about Tajiks being 21% of the population. If there is anything, it is that Tajiks are less than 9% of the population because they state that Dari speakers are 9% of the population which includes Hazaras, Tajiks and even those Pashtuns whose first language is Dari.  (Ketabtoon (talk) 22:47, 5 September 2009 (UTC))
 * I already quoted it from the NPS site, look above. Are you blind? NPS says Tajiks are 21% and MRRD supports that claim by saying Tajiks are one of the major ethnic groups. When it says "major group" it is agreeing with the NPS 21% figure. You're a Paki perhaps you don't understand American English. On the other hand, 9% is not major.--119.73.3.63 (talk) 07:38, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

To make the Demographics section more neutral, we have included both MRRD and NPS' estimates even though MRRD stats are more reliable and accurate, because they were published by Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan and United Nations. (Ketabtoon (talk) 22:59, 5 September 2009 (UTC))


 * Including both statistics is the best solution. I wonder if the MRRD percentages assume each village has the same population (57 / 620 = 9%). Maybe 9% of the villages are Tajik but not 9% of the population. --MarsRover (talk) 02:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I am assuming the percentages are for the population "Dari is spoken in 57 villages, representing just over 9% of the population=." (Ketabtoon (talk) 04:25, 6 September 2009 (UTC))
 * You're entire argument is based on assumption. Have you considered looking at dates? The MRRD info is from 2007 and the NPS info is from 2008. MRRD is so stupid they don't even know who Pashtuns are. Your way of thinking is also very stupid. If you see Demography of Afghanistan, it says that 80% of the population in Afghanistan speak Dari so if we go by your way of thinking then that would mean 80% of the population of Afghanistan are Tajiks and Hazaras. I'm telling you again that language doesn't determine someone's ethnic background. Majority of Afghans speak more than one language, especially Dari, Pashto, and Urdu. Something else you should know that many Tajiks living in the Pashtun areas adopted Pashto as their first language. I wish a 3rd party edit the demographic section in the article. I give up on these stupid uneducated fools whom the whole world is laughing at while they fight themselves.--119.73.3.63 (talk) 07:38, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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Ashoka's inscription
Article states that it "discussed the conversion of Ashoka to Buddhism". It is not clear to me how the Aramaic Inscription of Laghman refers to conversion.Malaiya (talk) 00:16, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

What kind of language is being used in this article? Is it acceptable? Is it wikipedia or alQaeda.net ?
The whole article is filled with extremely racist terminology like "Kafirs" and "infidels" and is glorifying the murder and conversion of these people. I'm not talking about quotes using these words, those are obviously fine. I'm taking about the article itself using these words.

Example : " He advanced and butchered the idolaters, destroying the temples and plundering their shrines, even risking frostbite on their hands counting the large booty"

Another:

" Laghman was the base for expeditions against the non-believers "

and

" Amir Abdur Rahman Khan forced the remaining kafirs (Nuristani people) to accept Islam."

Why can't words like Hindus and Buddhists or Native Religion followers be used? What is this article trying to teach young kids who will read it ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.64.206.180 (talk) 22:14, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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