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Pashtuns, also known as Pakhtuns and Pathans, are an ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans,
Pashtun-inhabited areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan (including the southern borders of the former Soviet Union, the northeastern borders of Iran, and the northwestern borders of India disputed with Pakistan), in early 1980s.
Bactrian document in the Greek script from the 4th century mentioning the word Afghan (αβγανανο): "To Ormuzd Bunukan from Bredag Watanan, the chief of the Afghans"
The Arachosia Satrapy and the Pactyan people during the Achaemenid Empire in 500 BCE
Sculpture of a Saka warrior in Termez, Uzbekistan
Malala Yousafzai
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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is
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…Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Misbah Ul Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Mohammad Wasim) and literature (e.g., Ghani Khan, Hamza Shinwari, and Kabir Stori). Malala Yousafzai, who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014, is a Pakistani Pashtun. Pashtuns are considered to be well-integrated in the Pakistani…
Yousafzai in 2023
Malala Yousafzai and Kaliash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Yousafzai with her father (left) and Martin Schulz in Strasbourg, 2013
From left to right: Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah have influenced Yousafzai.