Charsi !

Frangies are like termites either they lodge in their colonies to destroy the place which they visit as the western civilisation proved to be the ultimate exterminator of all cultures forced to become extinct whether food, , music, dress or lifestyle.

This copied picture of western Hippies taken in 1972, puffing Charas on the roof top of a hotel in Peshawar is the only legacy the Charasi Tikka in Peshawar today maintained.

Every civilisation have some distinct culture of which food, music, and dress is an integral part.

Similarly Pukhtun society have their own proud culture in which their Buddhist evolved Kameez Shalwar, cap with shamla, Snuff (Naswar), lamb Bar Be Que, animal fat fired beef Kabab and sheep made posteen that they wore till late 17 century but now became extinct like the guns that once every Pukhtun carried as symbol of status.

Of all the great contribution Pukhtuns made to the evolution of the society including defensive war tactics of sniping and camouflage dress that thei modern Western armies later adopted and standardised as warfare tactics nothing is attributed or credited to them like Charas and the demonised Charasi who recently become glorified being combined with their Charcoal prepared Lamb Tikkah( Bar Be Que).

Western Hippies once dotted the landscape of the erstwhile North West Frontier and Afghanistan to smoke Charas till they began to smuggle it by tons for consumption and in return gifted us guns power to fight their wars that blew everything in its smoke with nothing left of the once thriving civilisation and its rich culture except Charas and the Charsi Tikka of Peshawar,while the western Charsi long gone and forgotten as connoisseur of chars for which they travelled thousands of miles.

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