Afghanistan's Ethnic Groups Share a Y-Chromosomal Heritage

[Kushan Prince]

One and the same (admin). I've spread myself quite far across the genealogy boards over the years.



That's very much the case with Iranians as well unfortunately. Genetic genealogy attracts a minority of folks from West and Central Asia it seems. I can only assume the known ethno-linguistic or tribal affiliations and fitting them into the known historical narrative is sufficient for the majority in terms of understanding their family's pasts. Anything beyond that is likely deemed to be irrelevant.

With that being said, we do have quite a few discussions regarding Pakhtuns and South-Central Asia there. Unsure who Pashtanajan is on the forum, but I can sing the praises Sein's thoughtful contributions for days. One of our mods recently launched the SASCA Ancestry Project (SASCA = South Asian-South Central Asian). Shedding light on our community's presence and aspirations (particularly given the Harappa Project's slide into inactivity) is intuitive.

Thanks for your comment.

I feel like the lack of Iranian and Afghan interests in such matters is due to religious bias. As many of the aforementioned are muslims, they deem genetic study holds no merit in today's world since such ideology's go against Islam's teaching. (basically a who cares.) Or maybe that many people are scared of the fact of being mixed and do not want to know beyond what they have been told by family members. I do wish my people would take more interests in such topics though, it could shed light more on our origins considering we are a people with no written history.

A Kushan prince such as yourself might find interest in a very interesting discussion recently had regarding the Yuezhi/Kushans.

I will most defenitely check that thread out, thank you once again for your comment.

[Karachi]

If I am not mistaken, the Sindhis that were tested were actually mixed Sindhi/Baloch samples, this is the reason they are showing closer to Pashtuns. Many Sindhis have mixed with Baloch over the centuries