Srinivas
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Who are pathans i don't know them but i do know pukhtoons .
Those who are in India can hardly claim to be pulhtoons as they are diluted and are nothing like the originals.
Just to educated you pukhtoon is not a race.
Pashtus who migrated to India and settled here are also called pathans.
Pashtun people (Pashto: پښتانهPax̌tānə; also spelled Pushtun,Pakhtun or Pukhtun), also known as ethnic Afghans or Pathans,form an ethnic group with populations primarily in Afghanistan andPakistan.They are typically characterised by the usage of the Pashto language and practice of Pashtunwali, which is a traditional set of ethics guiding individual and communal conduct. Their origin is unclear but historians have come across references to various ancient peoples calledPakthas (Pactyans) between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC,inhabiting the region between the Hindu Kush mountains and the Indus River, who may be the early ancestors of the Pashtun people. Since the 3rd century AD, they have been mostly referred to by the ethnonym"Afghan".