Punjabis in Afghanistan, also referred to as Afghan Punjabis, are residents of Afghanistan who are the descendants of Punjabi settlers. In present-day, most of the community consists of Muslims, who used to speak a group of related Punjabi dialects which are reported to be extinct. There was, historically, a community of Sikhs and Hindus amongst them, which in recent years has left the country to avoid persecution.

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India, spoken predominantly by the Punjabi people. With approximately 148 million native speakers, it is the eighth most spoken native language in the world. It also has a few million additional speakers which, along with native speakers, makes it the twelfth most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world.