are pashtuns/kalash descendants of aryans? Concern history for tha. Afghans or Pushtuns and Baluchis belong to Persian Aryan group. Yes, the people of northern region i-e Nooristan, Chitral, Gilgit, Hunza and Kohistan are more puritan Indo-Aryans with a small intermix of Turkic stolk. This whole region was named as Kafiristan in old era. These people make racial link with European Indo-Aryans. Utilizing this relation, Christian mercenaries have been persuading these people saying, when we belong to the same stolk so why not turn all to the same religion. Islam came to this region from the north and west altering wholy the Aryan social system to Turkic manners. Chairs, long daggers(katars) and blackish headgears (of Siah posh) were turned to woollen carpets, curved broad swords and woollen caps of the Turks. Amir Taimur had attacked this region and being himself the commander of the best arrow shooter Tartars has praised the deadly arrow shooting of the Kafirs of this region.