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The Kalash (Kalasha: کالؕاشؕا, romanised: Kaḷaṣa), or Kalasha, are a small (ca. 3000) Indo-Aryan [c] indigenous (minority) people residing in the Chitral District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The term is also used to refer to several distinct Nuristani speaking people, including the Väi, the Čima-nišei, the ...
Punjabis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Punjab region between India and Pakistan. They are the largest ethnic group of Pakistan. Punjabi Muslims are the third-largest Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world, globally, [12] after Arabs [13] and Bengalis.
The Siddi (pronounced [sɪdːiː]), also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India. They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most of whom came to the Indian subcontinent through the Indian Ocean Slave Trade. [6]
At the 2017 Census of Pakistan, as many as 350,000 people declared their first language to be Kashmiri. [24] [25] A process of language shift is observable among Kashmiri-speakers in Azad Kashmir according to linguist Tariq Rahman, as they gradually adopt local dialects such as Pahari-Pothwari, Hindko or move towards the lingua franca Urdu.
Burusho people. The Burusho, or Brusho (Burushaski: بُرُشݸ, burúśu[6]), also known as the Botraj, [7][8] are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, [9] with a tiny minority of around 350 Burusho people residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India. [8][10 ...
Today, the Pashtuns are a collection of diversely scattered communities present across the length and breadth of India, with the largest populations principally settled in the plains of northern and central India. [72][73][74] Following the partition of India in 1947, many of them migrated to Pakistan. [72]
Baloch people. The Baloch (/ bəˈloʊtʃ / bə-LOHCH) or Baluch (/ bəˈluːtʃ / bə-LOOCH; Balochi: بلۏچ, romanized: Balòc, plural بلۏچانٚ) are a nomadic, [11][12][13][14] pastoral, [15][16][17] ethnic group which speaks the Western Iranic Balochi language [18] and is native to the Balochistan region of South and Western Asia ...
Kyrgyz are the only Turkic people native to Pakistan. The Kyrgyz in Pakistan live mostly in the north, primarily Chitral, where Kyrgyz is the only Turkic language spoken in Pakistan. [91] There are only a few thousand left, and many have assimilated with Pashtun or the Kho. [10] They used to dominate the region of Gilgit-Baltistan.