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'''Pashtun diaspora ([[Pashto]]: <small>بهر میاشت پښتانه)</small>''' 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]].<ref name="Britannica">{{Cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/445546/Pashtun |title=Pashtun |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=10 September 2010}}</ref> 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, Pakistan|Punjab]], particularly in their respective provincial capital cities of [[Karachi]] and [[Lahore]]. Additionally, people with Pashtun ancestry are also found across [[India]]; particularly in [[Rohilkhand]], a region in the Indian state of [[Pathans of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]]; and in the Indian states of [[Pathans of Gujarat|Gujarat]] and Rajasthan. Outside of [[South Asia]], significant Pashtun diaspora communities are found in the [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf]] (primarily in the [[United Arab Emirates]]), the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Germany]], [[Iran]], [[Australia]], [[Canada]], and [[Russia]].
The Pashtun people, who are classified as an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian ethnolinguistic group]], are believed to have settled in the traditional Pashtunistan region around the early {{Nowrap|1st millennium CE}}.<ref name="Habibi">{{cite web |url=http://www.alamahabibi.com/English%20Articles/Afghan_and_Afghanistan.htm |title=Afghan and Afghanistan |work=[[Abdul Hai Habibi]]|publisher=alamahabibi.com|year=1969|access-date=24 October 2010}}</ref><ref name="Ferishta">{{Cite web|url=http://persian.packhum.org/persian/pf?file=06901021&ct=10|title=''History of the Mohamedan Power in India''|author=[[Firishta|Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah]] (Firishta)|publisher=[[Packard Humanities Institute]]|work=Persian Literature in Translation|access-date=10 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211200506/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/pf?file=06901021&ct=10|archive-date=11 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to [[Ethnologue]], the total Pashtun population currently stands at around
== Native land ==
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