Are 60% of Pashtoons mongols?

[TolloAfghanSpinDai]

cough** cough** Ghilzai cough** cough**.

[TolloAfghanSpinDai]

I recall many people with the last name khan being asked if they were related to ghenghis khan.

[khushal]

khan is turkish not mongolian

[HalloIsBack]

khan was just a title and became to a name
it has nothing to do with the relatives

[Kushan Prince]

Ghilzai's are not turk and pashtuns don't carry mongol blood. I think you need to read the thread about the ghilzai's i posted on "Pashtun culture". I user kindly summed it for me how they were always pashtuns to begin with, and how easy it was for them to identify with other pashtun tribes and easily get assimilated into afghan culture.

[Tjanaparh]

khan is turkish not mongolian

Are You sure? But Khan is a mongolian word too. However both language families are related

[Kushan Prince]

khan is turkish not mongolian

And Turks orginally come from Mongolia near the Altai mountains.

[HalloIsBack]

Are You sure? But Khan is a mongolian word too. However both language families are related

turco-mongolian

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Ghilzai's are not turk and pashtuns don't carry mongol blood. I think you need to read the thread about the ghilzai's i posted on "Pashtun culture". I user kindly summed it for me how they were always pashtuns to begin with, and how easy it was for them to identify with other pashtun tribes and easily get assimilated into afghan culture.

You just contradicted yourself ...Ghilzais were not originally Pashtun, we maybe some form of Central Asian caucasian but definitely NOT originally Pashtun, we adopted the language over time but we spoke something else. In fact this is true of all Pashtuns really. Pashto is a very recent language related to Soghdian, Pamiri and so on.

[Karachi]

name is not of mongol origin I think, probably turkic.

[HalloIsBack]

name is not of mongol origin I think, probably turkic.

turco-mongolian

[Kushan Prince]

name is not of mongol origin I think, probably turkic.

And where did Turks come from?

That's right Mongolia. All Turkic people came from there before they settled in central Asia. Khan means "chieftain" in the mongol language.

[abassinafghan]

Pakis go to university and school ,both are english words ,60% of them must be british .

[HalloIsBack]

Pakis go to university and school ,both are english words ,60% of them must be british .

no anglo-saxon

[faye]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_(surname)