The efforts of the Sadozai heirs of Timur to impose a true monarchy on the truculent Pashtun tribes, and their efforts to rule absolutely and without the advice of the other major Pashtun tribal leaders, were ultimately unsuccessful.

The southern city of Kandahar was a centre of lawlessness, crime and atrocities fuelled by complex Pashtun tribal rivalries.

Jonaraja, in his Rajatarangini mentioned him as Sahamera who was a Pashtun from Swat region, the ( then ) tribal belt of Pakhtunkhwa province of present day Pakistan.

It is a forum unique among the Pashtun tribes in which, traditionally, tribal elders meet together.

Although the Pashtuns are politically separated by the Durand Line between Pakistan and Afghanistan, many Pashtun tribes from the FATA area and the adjacent regions of Afghanistan, tend to ignore the border and cross back and forth with relative ease to attend weddings, family functions and take part in the joint tribal councils known as jirgas.

By seeking to accord certain terrain international legitimacy based upon British failures to assert control over the fiercely independent Pashtun people and tribes in the region, the establishment of a border that would separate British interests from tribal interests was extremely important to British foreign policy.

In the Pashtun areas of the east, south and southwest, tribal structure, with its many rival sub-divisions, provided the basis for military organization and leadership.

He is thought to be in the Pashtun tribal region of Afghanistan or Pakistan.

The Pashtun tribal cuisine “ Roash ” which non-locals call “ Namkin ” is to be found in both city restaurants as well as in the outlying areas.

On January 15, 2010, RFE / RL began broadcasting to the Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan in Pashto.

The Durand Line cuts through the Pashtun tribal areas, dividing ethnic Pashtuns on both sides of the border.

For the entire period, tribal cross-border warfare was constant, and parts of the Pashtun homeland were annexed to British India and referred to as the North-West Frontier Province.

The Pashtun presence is still considerable to this day and continues to attract newer Pashtun migrants and workers from Pakistan's tribal areas.

They are headed with the words of the Pashto language that signify individual or collective Pashtun tribal functions.

Following a Muslim revolution in the Poonch and Mirpur area and an allegedly Pakistani backed Pashtun tribal intervention from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that aimed at supporting the revolution, the Maharaja asked for Indian military assistance.

يوسفزي Yūsufzī ; Urdu /), also called Yousafzai, Esapzay or Yūsufī, is one of the largest Pashtun tribal confederations.

Khushal Khan Khattak ( 1613 – 1689 ) () was a prominent Pashtun poet, warrior, charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe of the Pashtuns.

A jirga ( occasionally jargah ) ( Pashto: جرګه ) is a tribal assembly of elders which takes decisions by consensus, particularly among the Pashtun people but also in other ethnic groups near them ; they are most common in Afghanistan and among the Pashtuns in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan.

The Family Tree ( Shajaara ) show that Ghulam Faruque Khan Khattak was direct and 9th in descent of Khushal Khan Khattak ( 1613 – 1689 ) was a prominent Pashtun malik, poet, warrior, A charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe.

The largest segmentary lineage society today is believed to be the Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with some 50 million members organized into a vast tribal structure.

One of the Pashtun tribal groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan is known as Sarbans ( Sarbani ) and Pashtuns are believed to be of Scythian descent while their language is classified as East Scythian ( Sarmatian language is also grouped within Scythian branch ).

Ghilzai () are the second largest Pashtun tribal confederacy found in Afghanistan but the smallest in Pakistan.

The kebab originates from Mardan and is a common dish in Pashtun cuisine.

Nowadays, " Afghan " is usually not used as an ethnic term, but as a national demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, while " Pashtun "-the native ethnonym of this people-is largely used in a linguistic sense to refer to native speakers of Pashto.

Jalalabad is considered one of the most important cities of the Pashtun culture.

The population of the city is mostly Pashtun people, at 90 %.

Karachi especially after the 1970s has emerged as one of the largest Pashtun cities in the world with its Pashtun population estimated to be around five to seven million which is more than Peshawar, Kabul or Kandahar easily.

It is also used for resolving disputes in Afghanistan, but also in the Pashtun areas of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA in Pakistan.

The Taliban (), alternative spelling Taleban, (, meaning " students " in Pashto ) is an Islamic fundamentalist militant movement of Pashtun tribesmen.

The Taliban movement is primarily made up of members belonging to Pashtun tribes, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.

Pashtunistan (, Pax ̌ tūnstān ) or Pakhtunistan, meaning the " land of Pashtuns " or " land of Pakhtuns ", is a term used to refer to the historical region inhabited by the indigenous Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan since at least the 1st millennium BC.

A well-noted fact is that the population of Pashtuns in Pakistan is larger than Afghanistan's Pashtun population.

The Pashtun is the largest group followed by Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimak, Turkmen, Baloch and others.

He is an ethnic Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe.

He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Hotak tribe, which is part of the larger Ghilzai branch.

The city in general is dominated by Pashtun people followed by Baloch with Hazaras, Punjabi and others as the minority groups.

Today in Afghanistan, the development of a cultural melting pot is occurring, where different Afghanistan ethnic groups are mixing together to build a new Afghan ethnicity composed of preceding ethnicities in Afghanistan today, ultimately replacing the old Pashtun identity which stood for Afghan.

Notably in South Asia it has become a part of many South Asian Muslim names, especially when Pashtun descent is claimed.

10, 000 in the 1979 census, but is estimated to be 70, 000 in 2008, which is overwhelmingly Pashtun.

The Persian armies were completely defeated and southern Afghanistan was made into an independent local Pashtun kingdom.

The British made the largely Pashtun area part of British Balochistan.

He made Katuha is headquarters, he hunted Muslim Pashtun tribes like wild beasts with no exception for women.

Baber then married some young lady of a Pashtun ruler from Bunair and made a peace treaty but had no control of the area except by word.