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In India[edit]

In South India and Sri Lanka ,Pashtuns were the sellers of Dry Fruits called as "Pattaani" or "Kabuliwallah".Till 1980s ,Pattani's were free to roam through Indian Sub Continent without fearing Borders.To Legit My Claims ,You can look For Vintage photos.In All over India ,these pathans are known as kind of gypsy people as in the way they travel from places to places.as regarding India as only a Hindoo unbeliever ,Kufr state which the lot from pakistan has been brainwashed to believe in ,India has a 18crore strong Muslim Population who are rather secular in their ways. http://www.imagesofceylon.com/people/p32-full.jpg http://www.imagesofceylon.com/ioc-people2.htm

Expansion[edit]

This article needs to be expanded, as it has only limited information. Thanks. Mar de Sin ^{Talk to me!} 19:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have tried to expand the article to the extent of my knowledge. You are right though. It needs to be more thorough. Thanks. Anupam^Talk 19:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will keep adding more about the pashtun diaspora..any references will be appreciated. --Zak 14:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate all your efforts in writing this article. I have found another good reference: Dawat Magazine: Study of the Pathan Communities in four States of India. Thanks for your ebullience. Anupam^Talk 04:00, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

YOU are totally wrong. sharukh khan,salman khan,amir khan and many more from where they come Pashtun are in whole of the world.

these pashtun moves to many region of the world,they are here since fom a long time unfortunatly they forget their culture —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.132.118.5 (talk) 22:21, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Diaspora[edit]

If this article is about the pashtun's in the diaspora, then why are the native Pashtuns living in Pakhtunkhwa also included? In the article about Indians in the diaspora, it does not include the Indians living inside India, for obvious reasons. 198.7.249.101 16:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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No such thing as Pashtuns in india[edit]

Why does this article state that there are Pashtuns in india? this is absolutely false and seems to have been concocted. This should be immediately removed and deleted from this article. The Pashtuns of Afghanistan/Pakistan have never recognized that any of their kinsmen live in india, as many are merely indians who claim Pashtun ancestry merely to promote their social standings, they neither look Pashtun, nor do they share any cultural, linguistic or culinary traits similar to Afghans. They are for all intents and purposes, false pretenders, that someone has written an extensive history about here on wikipedia to distort the actual truth about Pashtuns in the world. There seems to be an indian bias to the article and I suspect the person who has written it is of that decent and trying to promote this incorrect information. Even the figures given from the times of the British Raj pertain to the regions of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan and not of india proper. Please correct this article immediately.

Very few Pashtuns of india look like Pashtuns, indians like the Rohillas, but yeah, your right, most assimilated and mixed as so much time has passed, it's like saying Germans that settled in America 200 years ago are just as Germans as people of Germany, this kind of cultural assimilation where the result is a mass of people of merely putative descent is common , especially in colonial era. --108.173.174.134 (talk) 04:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is from Captain Dr. Mohinder Singh who is quite unhappy to know that his Pashtun brotherhood is snached just like breaking the thread from the flying kite.How can some one say that there are no Pashtuns in India.Don't you think that people from Tirah region are Pashtuns? And if not then there are number of them in Patiala doing transport business.Pashtun can't forget that they speak 'Hindko' the language of the Indwaan-seekaan. Fortunately the author of these lines inhales from Rustam,Hoti Mardan and had been seeing Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan, the Sarhadi Gandhi from a very close quarterat the age of seven years in 1942 when Quit India Movement was its height.There are still people in India who take pride in calling themselves Pashtuns. Pashtun is an ethnic with cultural ties not acknowledging the God of christianity and judaism and Islam.May be that this was the reason that non Islamic Pashtun population left their homes in NWFP in 1947. Our Pashtun culture here in India still takes pride in our hospitality which is very rare i9n other groups.Arounds 5 Pashtun brothers had met me in Delhi during Pak-India People's Forum for Peace & Democracy's joint convention. similarly I cam across 15-20 of them in Karachi in 2003.I spoke in Pashto in Nastar Hall in 1998 and the news was carried by all the news papers. My wife's interview was shown on TV serial.Doctor daughter of Khan Wali Khan from Charsada had announced in Nashtar Hall that desirous people could come and meet he Abba as he happen to be in bed those days. I was the lone person out of the lot who could be desirous but could not make it.My visit was arranged to my home town Hoti Mardan probably on 23 November,1998.Unless the surviving people ,this day make an effort to revive the relationship among the Pashtuns of different religious groups it is certain that the person claiming that there are no Pashtuns in India will be proved true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.205.48.116 (talk) 14:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

>> Will be deleting erroneous figures of Pashtuns in India in the coming days. This figure of 11 million is wholesale fabrication. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.175.27.29 (talk) 08:32, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree with the user who started this discussion, I think Indians are trying to link Pashtuns with India which has no grounds. The figure of 11 million Pashtuns is totally misleading and have no grounds. --209.141.131.204 (talk) 21:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute resolution opened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Pashtun_People Observerpashtun (talk) 01:07, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am a dispute resolution volunteer at WP:DRN. I closed the above DRN case because editors are required to have an extensive discussion and make a real effort to resolve the dispute on the article talk page before asking for dispute resolution. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:46, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I figured that I share this here. We likely have a sockmaster here who behaves and writes like this person: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mani1/Archive. Notice the usage of words (i.e. fabrication, fabricated, data, and the dealing with ethnolinguisitics. Also notice the German language connection of these anonymous IPs, Observerpashtun, and Mani1 and the Germany-related examples they have been posting. They are here to insult/attack Pashtuns [1] by creating abusive user names to vandalize Pashtun related pages. [2]
I have provided some evidence about Pashtuns in India, who are known there by their other name, Pathans, see Talk:Pashtun people--Fareed30 (talk) 03:35, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pashtuns have settled in other ethnic groups for centuries, while picking up local languages and aspects of culture. We have Kashmiri Pashtuns (Sudhans), Punjabi Pathans (Kasuri, Saddzai, Tareen, Wardak so on and so forth), Dari Speaking pashtuns, Saraiki Pathans (Saddozais, Khattaks Niazi etc), Hindko Pathans (Jadoon, Swati, Tareen, Khattaks, Tahirkhelis etc), Sindh Pashtuns (Durrani etc), Indian Pathans (Bangush, Yousafzai etc). According to some estimates, there are three time non-pashto speaking pashtuns than pashto speaking pashtuns. So this is just the reality of things. SO thorse numbers sould be included in total pashtun numbers as they are pashtuns genetically none the less. 101.50.108.186 (talk) 11:38, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disruptive Edits[edit]

A IP is messing with the population figures either completly deleting pakistan and increasing afghaniistan's pashtun population. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arsi786 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why Pakistan Census 2017 and Basic Maths being ignored[edit]

If we look at Pakistan Census 2017 there are 38 million Pashto speaking pashtuns in Pakistan. Furthermore, if we agree with 42 percent than there are 16 million pashtuns in Afghanistan. Why are these facts being consistently ignored. Just that makes 54 million. 101.50.108.186 (talk) 11:44, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]