The Pashtuns Are Intimately Tied To The History

The Pashtuns, also known as the Pathans - are an Iranian ethnic group from Central and South Asia.

The mother tongue of the Pashtuns is Pashto, an Iranian language on the Indo-Iranian branch, itself a branch of a large Indo-European language family. The majority of Pashtuns speak Dari (a different form of Persian) or Hindustani (Hindi / Urdu) in another language (Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent, respectively); however, a significant minority speaks these languages ​​as their first, primary or primary language.

The total number of Pashtuns is about 63 million. However, the number is controversial due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan in 1979.

Pashtuns live on the land of southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan (sometimes called the Pashtunistan region) where they live. In the province of Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan (especially in the cities of Karachi and Lahore) and in the Rohail Khand region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (and also in major cities like Delhi and Bombay) there are important and historical parties of Diaspora. . The Arab states of the Persian Gulf (mainly in the United Arab Emirates) have formed a recent Diaspora as part of the larger countries in South Asia.

Pashtuns are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and makeup about 42% of the population. They have been a strong group of ethnic linguistic groups in Afghanistan since the formation of the nation. Pashtuns are Pakistan's second-largest ethnic group, accounting for 15% of the population, and are considered one of the nation's five largest ethnic groups.

The Pashtuns are the 26th largest ethnic group in the world and the largest sectarian lineage in the world. There are an estimated 350-400 Pashtun tribes and clans.

Historical Pashtun figures include Ahmad Shah Durrani (considered the founder of Afghanistan) and Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Indian independence activists during the British Raj). Other notable figures of Pashtun (or partial Pashtun) descent include Imran Khan, Malala Yousafzai, Sher Shah Suri, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Afridi, Pir Roshan, Amanullah Khan, Dawood Khan, Ayub Khan, Zakir Hussain and others.