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[63] [59] While speakers of Pashto in the country number only 21,677 as of 2011, estimates of the ethnic or ancestral Pashtun population in India range from 3,200,000 [10] [64] [65] to 11,482,000, [66] to as high as double their population in Afghanistan (approximately 30 million).
He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and is an ethnic Pashtun of the Kakar tribe. Zareen Khan – Indian actress who made her debut in Bollywood. She has Pashtun ancestry from her father's side and originally from Swat; Aamir Khan – famous Bollywood actor, his family has roots from Herat in Afghanistan, he belongs to the Khan-Hussain family.
US states with significant Pashtun populations, based on the 2000 Census.. Early 1860s Pashtuns Begin migration to United States than 1920s 200 Pashtun Families Move From Afghanistan to United States, 1979 Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan Largest Pashtun Communities move to United States among Other Ethnic people of Afghanistan, Many Pashtuns Living in America are from Afghanistan and ...
As the British census only collects data based on national origin, Pashtuns usually self-report their ethnicity as Pakistani or Afghan for statistical purposes. [5] As of 2009, the total Pashtun population in the UK was estimated to number 100,000. [4] The language database Ethnologue reported at least 87,000 Pashto-speakers in the UK. [15]
The Pashtun people are classified as an Iranian ethnic group.They are indigenous to southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. [1] [2] Although a number of theories attempting to explain their ethnogenesis have been put forward, the exact origin of the Pashtun tribes is acknowledged as being obscure. [3]
The Pashtun people, who are classified as an Iranian ethnolinguistic group, are believed to have settled in the traditional Pashtunistan region around the early 1st millennium CE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] According to Ethnologue , the total Pashtun population currently stands at around 30 million, [ 15 ] but some sources give slightly lower or higher figures.
A. Abdulla Khan Jadran Yawan; Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai; Najib ad-Dawlah; Afghan (tribal chief) Azad Khan Afghan; Ajab Khan Afridi; Darya Khan Afridi; Javed Afridi
Afghan Americans are composed of the various ethnic groups that exist in Afghanistan, which include Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Baloch, and a number of others. [45] Since 1945, Afghan Americans have been officially classified as Caucasians. [46] For U.S. Census purposes Afghans are racially categorized as White Americans. [47]