User blog comment:Jaadowgg/Shalnark a Kurta?/@comment-5838283-20130109190946

No no no you must resist! People are saying that because the first Pyro sketch that came out in the magazine (it's on the wiki on the phantom rouge page) was colourless: people thought it looked like Shalnark, because the hair looked blonde. Then they expanded the theory by reasoning that Shalnark's clothes and shoes look similar to the Kurta style. I even saw people matching the cell phone that Pyro has in the oneshot with Shalnark's phone that he uses for his ability, implying that Pyro IS Shalnark, and the phone is somehow important..

Personally I see no reason why Pyro would dye his hair, change his name, and NOT change his clothes just to join up with the spiders over a cell phone. Maybe Shalnark does have a connection with the Kurta, which would certainly be interesting, but I'm sure Togashi will have a better explanation for it than anything we try to think up. :p