Pashtun diaspora

Not to be confused with Afghan diaspora.

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. While the (erstwhile) Pashtunistan is home to the majority of Pashtun people, there are significant local Pashtun diaspora communities scattered across the neighbouring Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab, particularly in their respective provincial capital cities of Karachi and Lahore. Outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan, significant Pashtun diaspora communities are found in Iran, the United States, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Russia and the Gulf Arab states.

The Pashtun people, who are an Eastern Iranian ethnolinguistic group, are believed to have settled in the traditional Pashtunistan region around the early 1st millennium AD.

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