Tell me about the origins of the pashtun people? From what i know, northwest pakistan and the southern afghanistan was part of india known as gandhara. People there spoke indo-aryan languages descended from sanskrit. In the 10th century, an indian dynasty known as the hindu shahis ruled this area with kabul as their capital. The the kabul-jalabad area was conquered by the ghaznavis which started pashtunization.

So are pashtuns turks? Or are they iranians since they speak an iranian language? Where did they come from?