Edited sentence: " Yet, as Pir Roshan and Baraki ancestors—warriors who fought and died to defend their freedom and their tribe's interests—example informs us: it is better to stand up to tyranny, brutality and injustice than to appease evildoers by appeasement or worse (by joining them).- - This can be viewed as a brilliant, somewhat successful attempt, at "reinvention" in order to protect/survive.First their language is Ormuri, not Arabic, and is far removed from the latter.Furthermore, closer examination of the Barakis roots fails to substantiate the "Yemeni/Arab/Medina" connection.One can postulate that given the dire conditions in Waziristan today with the Burki/Urmar in an uneviable position as a smallest tribe, this may be another "survival narrative.Second, judging from their fair complexions, features, the Greek/Kurdish/Persian connection is a more weighty one, as is a possible Hebrew one (another narrative amongst various Pashtun tribes to include the Yusufzai and Afridi), which the Arab "guests" have worked hard to eliminate (as they have equally tried to eliminate the Sufi movement that is the core of Pushtun religious life) with an "Arabic ancestry yarn" to coopt the Pashtuns in general to give up their culture and traditions based on Pashtunwali.The Baraki are no more from the South Asian sub-continent, than they are from the Arabian Peninsula