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Pashtuns
The Pashtuns are an Iranian-speaking people of southern and eastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan, speaking Pashto and organised in many tribes and clans. Their customary code, Pashtunwali, stresses honour, hospitality and the tribal council, or jirga. Pashtun dynasties such as the Hotaks and the Durranis founded the modern Afghan state in the 18th century.
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