Pashtuns in a sentence

It is the native tongue of the Tajiks, Hazaras, Aimaks, and Kizilbash. citation Pashto is the native tongue of the Pashtuns, although many Pashtuns often use Dari and some non-Pashtuns are fluent in Pashto.

Although the Pashtuns nowadays constitute a clear ethnic group with their own language and culture, there is no evidence whatsoever that all modern Pashtuns share the same ethnic origin.

The Pashtuns remain a predominantly tribal people, but the worldwide trend of urbanisation has begun to alter Pashtun society as cities such as Kandahar, Peshawar, Quetta and Kabul have grown rapidly due to the influx of rural Pashtuns.

The report indicates that it is planned to settle five million Pashtuns in the north of Afghanistan.

The violence also displaced more than 6 million Pashtuns.

The portrayal of Pashtuns in the media and the construction of their identity have inflicted deep wounds on the Pashtun nation.

First, Pakistani Pashtuns have a higher literacy rate, and wider access to better quality education than Afghans.

The PTM, also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement, was founded to defend the rights of ethnic Pashtuns in regions where the army had conducted offensives against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

There are many more questions over the possible fate of the Pashtuns, as well as the country’s minorities.

The PTM movement has angered Pakistan's powerful military since it emerged last year, with its open criticism and calls to end alleged abuses against Pashtuns living in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

Although it has been blacked out in Pakistani media, the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) under the charismatic Manzoor Pashteen is giving voice to that discontent among the Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in this region.

By addressing the Pashtuns' grievances, Pakistan could let go out its outdated self-image as a monolithic state.

In the last election, the minority Hazaras won all the seats from Ghazni, leaving the majority Pashtuns and Tajiks without representation.

The term in the past used to refer to Pashtuns in Afghanistan and members of other ethnic groups believe that since the cards will carry the person’s tribal identity the use of “Afghan” is redundant.

Young Pashtuns are targeted by the security forces and many have been killed extrajuducially, which has had a radicalizing effect.

According to Ali A. Jalali and Lester Grau, the Taliban "received extensive support from Pashtuns across the country who thought that the movement might restore their national dominance.

According to the GRU, Sarwari was a better candidate as he could balance between the Pashtuns, Tajiks and Uzbeks; Najibullah was a Pashtun nationalist.

Afghanistan further In the 1880s, Abdur Rahman Khan moved the rebellious Ghilzai Pashtuns from the southern part of the country to the northern part.

Ancient references further The Arachosia Satrapy and the Pactyan people during the Achaemenid Empire in 500 B.C. A variety of ancient groups with eponyms similar to Pakhtun have been hypothesized as possible ancestors of modern Pashtuns.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world / editor in chief, Richard C. Martin, Macmillan Reference USA : Thomson/Gale, c2004 However, this popularity was not universal, particularly among non-Pashtuns.