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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 . [ 12 ]
A minority of Pashtuns came from India to America, Pashtun Americans are a sub-community within the wider Pakistani American and Afghan American communities. Areas with large populations include New York City , where there are over 12,000 Pashtuns, [ 4 ] as well as the San Francisco Bay Area , Virginia , Los Angeles , Georgia , Chicago ...
Pashtunization (Pashto: پښتون جوړونه, Dari: پشتونسازی), [1] [2] [3] is a process of cultural or linguistic change in which someone or something non-Pashtun becomes acculturated to Pashtun influence.
Pashtuns around the world, particularly those in Arab countries, watch these for entertainment purposes and to get latest news about their native areas. [294] Others are Afghanistan-based Shamshad TV, Radio Television Afghanistan, TOLOnews and Lemar TV, which has a special children's show called Baghch-e-Simsim.
As of 2009, the total Pashtun population in the UK was estimated to number 100,000. [4] The language database Ethnologue reported at least 87,000 Pashto-speakers in the UK. [15] According to another estimate, Pashtuns accounted for about 11 percent of the British Pakistani population as of 2014, which numbered over 1.1 million at the time. [16]
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Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.