Pashtuns Of Afghanistan The PATHAN (Pashtun) people form the dominant ethnic and linguistic community, accounting for just over half the population. Tribally organized, the Pathan are concentrated in the east and the south. As they gained control over the rest of the country in the 19th century, however, many of them settled in other areas too. The Pashtuns mostly speak Pashtu (although some ...

Chapter One Images of the Pathan: The Usefulness of Colonial Ethnography Their fidelity is measured by the length of the purse of their seducer, and they transfer their obedience according to the liberality of the donation. Frederick Mackeson, a colonial officer in the NWFP in the 1850s, speaking of the Afridi Pathans. The germs of confidence once established amidst these people always bear ...

ISSUE 74 AUTUMN 2001 The articles in this issue have been divided up into the following categories The Israeli Source of the Pathan Tribes From the book, Lost Tribes from Assyria, by A Avihail and A Brin, 1978, in Hebrew by Issachar Katzir As children, we heard from our parents, who come from Afghanistan, stories about the Ten Tribes who were lost during the destruction of the Temple, about ...