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Abdul Ghani Khan (Pakistan) – Pashto poet, writer, philosopher, and artist [6] Ameer Hamza Shinwari (Pakistan/Afghanistan) - Pashto Poet, Writer ,philosopher etc; Sardar Ali Takkar (Pakistan/Afghanistan) – popular sufist Pashto singer. Rahim Shah (Pakistan) – popular Pashto and Urdu singer; Khyal Muhammad (Pakistan) – prominent Pashto ...
[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).
Pashtun diaspora (Pashto: بهر مېشت پښتانه) comprises all ethnic Pashtuns. There are millions of Pashtuns who are living outside of their traditional homeland of Pashtunistan , a historic region that is today situated over parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan . [ 12 ]
[54] [9] [10] Bellew's theory was that all Pashtun tribal names could be traced to Rajput names. [55] [56] The Arab historian al-Masudi wrote that "Qandhar" (Gandhara in modern-day north west Pakistan) is a country of Rajputs and was a separate kingdom with a non-Muslim ruler. [57] Due to similar sounding names, this has been a source of ...
Tarbur means "cousin" in Pashto, so tarbur could be an enemy as well in the Pashtun culture that they can occupy your land or property. Every Pashtun tribe is then divided into subtribes, also called khel or zai. Zai in Pashto means "descendant". William Crooke has said that khel is from an Arabic word meaning "association" or "company". [11]
Pashto [b] (/ ˈ p ʌ ʃ t oʊ / PUH-shto, [6] [4] [5] / ˈ p æ ʃ t oʊ / PASH-toe; [c] پښتو, Pəx̌tó, [pəʂˈto, pʊxˈto, pəʃˈto, pəçˈto]) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.