What Is In The Pashtun Genes? RFERL

Recent stories in the Israeli and Western media report that an Indian researcher is studying blood samples from a Pashtun migrant community in northern India to see whether the Pashtuns of today's Afghanistan and Pakistan are linked to the lost tribes of Israel, who were scattered after an Assyrian conquest 2,700 years ago.

Various historians have sought to establish such links over the years, although most of them have been heavily contested.

Regardless, evaluating Pashtuns' ethnic heritage is a minefield -- in all of their complicated history, the Pashtun people have lived in and around the Hindu Kush and Sulaiman mountains and have fought and absorbed legions of invaders and migrants.

They're more worried about preserving their cultural values of egalitarianism, individuality, and independence, and not being seen as perpetrators of extremist violence, especially when as a people they themselves have endured so much. - What Is In The Pashtun Genes? - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ...

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