The Pashtun tribes (Pashto: پښتانه قبايل), are tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who speak the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali, the social code of conduct for Pashtuns.

Pashtuns (/ ˈpʌʃˌtʊn /, / ˈpɑːʃˌtʊn /, / ˈpæʃˌtuːn /; Pashto: پښتانه, romanized: Pəx̌tānə́; [18]), also known as Pakhtuns, [19] or Pathans, [d] are a nomadic, [23][24][25] pastoral, [26][27] eastern Iranic ethnic group [19] primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. [28][29] They were historically also refe...

Pashtun, member of an ethnolinguistic group residing primarily in the region that lies between the Hindu Kush in northeastern Afghanistan and the northern stretch of the Indus River in Pakistan. The Pashtun are united by a common language, Pashto, and constitute the largest ethnic group of …

2024年9月19日 · Pashtun are traditionally divided into four tribal confederacies: the Sarbani, the Bettani, the Gharghashti and the Karlani. The Pashtun tribes are the tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who use the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali code of …

2019年5月22日 · They are the biggest segmentary-lineage tribal group on the planet with over 350 Pashtun clans and tribes. There are over 50 million Pashtuns in the world with a majority of them living in the Pakhtunistan region which was divided after the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

2019年8月11日 · With a population of at least 50 million, the Pashtun people are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group , and are also the second-largest ethnicity in Pakistan. They are also known as "Pathans."

The Pashtuns began as a union of largely East-Iranian tribes which became the initial ethnic stratum of the Pashtun ethnogenesis, dates from the middle of the first millennium CE and is connected with the dissolution of the Epthalite (White Huns) confederacy. ...

Pathan (Pashtun) People, Tribe, Culture, Religion & History The Pathan inhabit southern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Their language is Pushto (Pashto) and, except for a small minority, they are Sunni Muslims.

way of life. In the present South Asian region, the Pashtun, known for their love of freedom, codes of honor and hospitality are one such society. Estimated to be more than twenty-five million members, ethnic Pashtun constitute the largest tribal group of the world. There is no unanimity among scholars over the origin of Pashtun tribes,1 yet

In Afghanistan which recently has sunk into chaos and turmoil and where tribes have gained considerably in importance, the tribal system is only one component within a much more complex social and political web. This is true as well for areas populated homogeneously by Pashtuns.