what were pashtuns before islam?

[Sanskrit]

what religion/culture did pashtuns follow before islam?? i need real history please

also who built the buddah statues at Bamiyan?? were they built by pashtuns or other people in afghanistan area?? didn't indians also live in afghanistan during the Ashoka the great time, when his empire streched empire from afghanistan to east india?

this is the empire of ashoka the great:



This is ashokas inscription from Kandahar, afghanistan:

[graveyardofempires]

what are you aiming for here?
you post thread about some "succesful" bollywood actors and now want to tell us we are some hindus?

We dont knwo our history,we do believe the most trusted sources,which are islamic sources which tells us that we were ban i israel.

[Chelsea-Fan]

Modern Pakhtuns are not the same as ancient Pakhtuns. Modern Pakhtuns are Muslims, ancient Pakhtuns were Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Coptic christians. I don´t believe the Buddas of Bamian were part of Pakhtuns. All the rulers of the region were nonPakhtuns. We were also mostly nomads while Buddas of Bamian were built by urban people.

[Amir al Ghaznavi]

what are you aiming for here?
you post thread about some "succesful" bollywood actors and now want to tell us we are some hindus?

We dont knwo our history,we do believe the most trusted sources,which are islamic sources which tells us that we were ban i israel.

we're not. get this fairy tale out of your head, youngin

[graveyardofempires]

we're not. get this fairy tale out of your head, youngin

prove it wron or shut and stand in the line mr agnostic

[Sanskrit]

Modern Pakhtuns are not the same as ancient Pakhtuns. Modern Pakhtuns are Muslims, ancient Pakhtuns were Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Coptic christians. I don´t believe the Buddas of Bamian were part of Pakhtuns. All the rulers of the region were nonPakhtuns. We were also mostly nomads while Buddas of Bamian were built by urban people.

but who were the urban people???

[Chelsea-Fan]

but who were the urban people???

Ancestors of Pharsiwans and Hazarahs who lived in the region before modern Afgahnistan and Pakistan was created. Such regions are still populated by those people and dominated by them.

[بصير]

The origins of Pashtuns remains obscure and the evidence suggests that Pashtuns formed from a conglomerate of various peoples whom were mostly either Pagans/Shamans, Hindus or Buddhists and perhaps maybe some Jews (tough I doubt it).

[Saifullah]

who cares where pashtun came from....if they were muslims or not. Just make urselves good muslim now. Past wont count for us....Muhammad (saw) tribe were of the mushrikeen but look at him and his children!!! So sanskrit or watever u tryin to prove wont mean anything

[ScimitarXEdge]

exactly Arabs before Islam were pretty much like Hindus before.

[randolph85]

a mish mash of different groups who formed some semblance of cultural cohesion. but like ghani khan said, what we were thousands of years ago doesn't matter.

[Espresso]

what religion/culture did pashtuns follow before islam?? i need real history please

also who built the buddah statues at Bamiyan?? were they built by pashtuns or other people in afghanistan area?? didn't indians also live in afghanistan during the Ashoka the great time, when his empire streched empire from afghanistan to east india?

this is the empire of ashoka the great:



This is ashokas inscription from Kandahar, afghanistan:

sanskrit kindly please stop posting these kind of threads afghanistan & india are very good friends & share historical & culture geo-political ties but pushing any thing further then its limits backfire its the rule of nature respect for every religion is a must but their is no such thing as an original hindu & converted muslim the conversion then becomes the original thus forming the actual identity while the former cease to exist so one must respect the choice of the people & recognized as their religious identity now is no such thing as a born christian converted buddhist so he/she has to be actually a christian no rather its a buddhist by birth or the person was born to become a buddhist in case of conversion

[Sanskrit]

^ what does all that have to do with this thread? i am just asking history questions

[آريا]

People in Afghanistan and Pashtunkhwa (speakers of old languages like Avestan and Sanskrit and Saka languages) were Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hindus and pagans.

[Chelsea-Fan]

Sanscrit was spoken in northern India, not Pakhtunwa or Afghanistan. Avistan was the language of middle asia. Our original home was always the region between Sindh and Qandahar. Your claim do not fit in that. I head something about saka language but this is only a theory. Accoridng to al-barani Pashtuns were no Hindus, no Muslims and no Zorostrians. Recognize also the facts that modern Pakhtusn are different than the people of ancient days. Modern Pakhtuns have also non-Pakhtun tribes and people as ancestors who invaded our region the last 1000years and earlier. Jews, Arabs, Lodi, Khalji, Indians and many more.