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It's not that they don't consider themselves Pashtuns, but that they said that they were descendants of Alexander's army and still considered themselves Pashtuns. Some Dardics like Kalash claim such descent as well, but that's because they don't have much written records and are very isolated...

Gandhara's major centres were in Northern Punjab (Potohar + Hazara), with Taxila in NW Punjab being the most advanced centre. Remember, even the Peshawer and Swat Valleys are (or until recently were) mostly Hindkowan (Punjabi dialect) speaking. Also, Gandharan language was a Northwestern...

'W' doesnt really exist in Indo-Iranian languages (both Iranic and Indic), only 'V' does and the interchangeability of v and b exists in almost all Indo-Iranian languages. Do you have more info about these Abgans? afaik, Afghan is a foreign term used by Persians or Arabs for Pashtuns, sometimes...

The Indo-Greeks = Pashtuns? lol Kushans originated in the Bactria-Sogdiana region, East Iranics of the vicinity like Pamiris, Yaghnobis etc. would have the most derived ancestry from them however other people from the former regions of their kingdom, with high steppe ancestry may have Kushan...

MAKE GANDHARA GREAT AGAIN

lol. If thats what you want to believe, then ok :-)

What do you mean by Central Asian roots? Sanskrit was developed after the Aryans arrived in South Asia, so ofcourse it wouldnt be found in Central Asia. Their original home was in the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Southern Russia, with sites like Yamnaya, Sintashta, Srubnaya etc. being present. And...

Sanskrit developed when the Aryans arrived in South Asia, when they were still steppe nomads they spoke proto-Indo-Aryan. Sites like Yamnaya and Sintashta are where they expanded from. Dont know what evidence you're talking about, but the historic and genetic evidence for the Aryan invasion is...

By this logic, the Mughals were Indians? So if an Arab invades Iran but writes some Persian poetry, he becomes a proud Iranian? Turks/Turkics cannot be Iranian by definition, but can be Iranian by nationality. Anyway, if Turks or Turkmens can be Iranian and Nader Shah was an Iranian, then I...

Nader Shah was a Turk/Turcoman, not an Iranian.

This is the description of 'Al-Sind' from the "Muruju-l Zahab" of Al-Masudi, famous 10th century historian and geographer, and often called the Arabic Herodotus. It was described as extending from the Suleiman Mountains in the west to Kashmir in the north, all the way to the Arabian Sea in the...

Why do you think it was exclusively the southern Kandahari type Pashtuns that were more united and had an incentive to form a dynasty compared to the northern ones?

I think it's rather interesting that all the major Pashtun dynasties were sheen/southern ones including the Durranis and Hotak.

Did the Lodis and Suris speak the Sha dialect or the Kha?

Where were the Lodis from originally? Kandahar? @Mian Babban