18 Facts About Pashtun people

The total population of the Pashtun people worldwide is estimated to be around 49 million, although this figure is disputed due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan since 1979.

In India, significant and historical communities of the Pashtun people diaspora exist in the northern region of Rohilkhand as well as in major Indian cities such as Delhi and Mumbai.

Prominent Pashtun people figures include Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Abdul Ghani Khan, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Alauddin Khalji, Ayub Khan, Bahlul Lodi, Dilip Kumar, Imran Khan, Irrfan Khan, Khushal Khan, Madhubala, Malala Yousafzai, Malalai of Maiwand, Mirwais Hotak, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Pir Roshan, Rahman Baba, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Afridi, Sher Shah Suri, and Zakir Hussain, among others.

Metropolitan centres within Pashtun people dominated areas include Kandahar, Quetta, Jalalabad, Mardan, Mingora and Peshawar.

Pashtun people created the last Afghan empire that covered most of what is Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Indian Punjab, as well as the Kohistan and Khorasan provinces of Iran.

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However, others tend to be more flexible and sometimes define who is Pashtun people based on cultural and not religious criteria: Pashtun people society is not homogenous by religion.

Pashtun people culture is a unique blend of native customs and depending on the region with some influences from Western or Southern Asia.

Pashtun people nationalism emerged following the rise of Pashto poetry that linked language and ethnic identity.

Pashtun people performers remain avid participants in various physical forms of expression including dance, sword fighting, and other physical feats.

Buddhism, in its own unique syncretic form, was common throughout the whole region, Pashtun people would be patrons of Buddhism but still worship local Iranian gods such as Ahura Mazda, Lady Nana, Anahita or Mihr.

Pashtun people purportedly had four children: Sarban, Batan, Ghourghusht and Karlan.

Pashtun people used the Pashtunwali law to unite the Pashtun tribes against their Persian enemies.

Pashtun people's cause was picked up in the early 18th century by Zarghona Anaa, the mother of Ahmad Shah Durrani.

Lives of Pashtun people women vary from those who reside in conservative rural areas, such as the tribal belt, to those found in relatively freer urban centres.

Pashtun people arranges marriages for her own family and arbitrates conflicts for men and women.

Pashtun people was the only woman to appear on the list of rulers in Afghanistan.

Khatol Mohammadzai serves as Brigadier general in the military of Afghanistan, another Pashtun people female became a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force.

Some other notable Pashtun people women include Suhaila Seddiqi, Zeenat Karzai, Shukria Barakzai, Fauzia Gailani, Naghma, Najiba Faiz, Tabassum Adnan, Sana Safi, Malalai Kakar, Malala Yousafzai, and the late Ghazala Javed.