Pashtun nationalism
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Pashtun nationalism is an ideology that asserts the Pashtuns are a nation and promotes the unity of Pashtuns. The Pashtun question, which is the debate over the creation of an independent Pashtun nati
Painting by Abdul Ghafoor Breshna depicting the 1747 coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani, who is regarded as the founding father of Afghanistan (Father of the Nation).
Manzoor Pashteen, Chairman of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement ("Pashtun Protection Movement"), a social movement based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
1961 Stamp commemorating "Pashtunistan Day"
1965 Stamp with alternative variant
Pashtunistan
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Pashtunistan 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 and
Pashtun nationalism
…ideology that asserts the Pashtuns are a nation and promotes the unity of Pashtuns. The Pashtun question, which is the debate over the creation of an independent Pashtun nation-state from the Pashtun-majority regions of Pakistan (Pakthunkhwa and Northern Balochistan), emerged in the early 20th century and became a major source of…
Pashtunistan as in the Pashtun-majority areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan (in green)
Pashtun children, indigenous to the Pashtunistan region
The area during 500 B.C. was recorded as Arachosia and inhabited by a people called the Pactyans.