Editing Pashtuns (section)

===Afghanistan and Pakistan===
{{See also|Ethnic groups in Afghanistan|Ethnic groups in Pakistan}}
Pashtuns are spread over a wide geographic area, south of the [[Amu river]] and west of the [[Indus River]]. They can be found all over Afghanistan and Pakistan.<ref name="Caldwell2011">{{cite book|author=Dan Caldwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wSvp3VTGRecC&pg=PA36|title=Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq|date=17 February 2011|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-7666-0|pages=36|quote=A majority of Pashtuns live south of the Hindu Kush (the 500-mile mountain range that covers northwestern Pakistan to central and eastern Pakistan) and with some Persian-speaking ethnic groups.}}</ref> Big cities with a Pashtun majority include [[Jalalabad]], [[Kandahar]], [[Bannu]], [[Dera Ismail Khan]], [[Khost]], [[Kohat]], [[Lashkar Gah]], [[Mardan]], [[Ghazni]], [[Mingora]], [[Peshawar]], [[Quetta]], among others. Pashtuns also live in [[Abbottabad]], [[Farah, Afghanistan|Farah]], [[Herat]], [[Islamabad]], [[Kabul]], [[Karachi]], [[Kunduz]], [[Lahore]], [[Mazar-i-Sharif]], [[Mianwali]], and [[Attock]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

The city of [[Karachi]], the financial capital of Pakistan, is home to the world's largest urban community of Pashtuns, larger than those of [[Kabul]] and [[Peshawar]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhOUEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|title=Under the Gun|first=Niloufer A.|last=Siddiqui|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781009242523|date=2022|page=186}}</ref> Likewise, [[Islamabad]], the country's political capital, also serves as the major urban center of Pashtuns. More than 20% of the city's population belongs to the [[Pashto]]-speaking community.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}