Pashtun Americans

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In the early 1860s, the first Pashtuns began migration to the United States and then in the 1920s, approximately 200 Pashtun families moved to the US in regularly low numbers. As a result of the Soviet–Afghan War, the largest exodus of all Afghan communities to the United States was recorded to date. Now, many Pashtuns residing in America are from Afghanistan and Pakistan, in particular Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan. A minority of Pashtuns came from India to America, Pashtun Americans are a sub-community within the wider Pakistani American and Afghan American communities. Areas with large populations include New York City, where there are over 12,000 Pashtuns,{{cite web|url=http://fi2w.org/2011/01/06/i-am-a-khan-i-am-not-a-terrorist-say-pashtuns-in-new-york/|title='I Am a Khan, I Am Not a Terrorist' Say Pashtuns in New York|work=Feet in 2 Worlds|date=6 January 2011|access-date=24 August 2015|first=Mohsin|last=Zaheer}} as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, Virginia, Los Angeles, Georgia, Chicago metropolitan area, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and Oregon. Fremont, California has the largest Afghan community in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://coresourceexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Afghans-Culture-Profile.pdf|title=The Afghans: Their History and Culture|work=Center for Applied Linguistics|date=2002|first1=Barbara|last1=Robson|first2=Juliene|last2=Lipson}} According to the 2010 Census, 15,788 individuals identified Pashto as their first language spoken at home.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/data/other/detailed-lang-tables.xls|title=US Census 2010 (see row# 89)|work=U.S. Census Bureau|quote=Table 1. Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over for the United States: 2006-2008}} Pashtun-Americans are categorized as White-Americans under the US census.{{Cite web |title=In the Matter of K, 2 I&N Dec. 253 {{!}} Casetext |url=https://casetext.com/admin-law/in-the-matter-of-k-27#p256 |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=casetext.com}}

A small number of Pashtun Americans have served in the United States Armed Forces, in varying roles in the War in Afghanistan. Lieutenant Colonel Asad A. Khan, a Pakistani-American marine, was a member of one of the first conventional units to enter Afghanistan.{{cite news |last=Tempest |first=Rone |date=25 May 2002 |title=U.S. Heroes Whose Skills Spoke Volumes |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-25-fg-khan25-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=20 November 2014 }} Khan would return to Afghanistan in command of the 1st Battalion 6th Marines in 2004; only to be later relieved of command.{{cite book |last=Lowrey |first=Colonel Nathan S. |year=2011 |title=U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001-2002: From the Sea |url=http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Publications/Publication%20PDFs/FROM%20THE%20SEA.pdf |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=History Division, United States Marine Corps |pages=299–300 |isbn=978-0-16-089557-9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129020107/http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Publications/Publication%20PDFs/FROM%20THE%20SEA.pdf |archive-date=2014-11-29 }} Pfc. Usman Khattak, an ethnic Pashtun from northwest Pakistan, is a US Army Food Specialist with the 539th Transportation Division and is based at the US Army camp in Kuwait.{{cite web|url=http://www.dvidshub.net/news/33541/pakistani-american-soldier-compelled-serve-us-army#.VGY_QDTQWAg|title=Pakistani-American Soldier Compelled to Serve in U.S. Army|work=DVIDS|date=13 May 2009|access-date=15 November 2014|first=Kelli|last=Roesch}}

The Voice of America has a Pashto language service.{{cite web|url=http://www.pashtovoa.com/|title=Homepage|work=Pashto VoA|access-date=24 August 2015}}

The Pakhtoon American Community Association (PACA) is a cultural association based in Maryland, which organizes an annual Pashto Conference, in addition to other events.{{cite web|url=http://www.pakhtoonusa.org/|title=Homepage|work=Pakhtoon American Community Association|access-date=24 August 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1040270|title=Portraying the true face of Pashtuns to the world|work=Dawn|date=3 September 2013|access-date=24 August 2015|first=Zahir Shah|last=Sherazi}} The Khyber Society, founded in 1986 in New York, also arranges cultural events.

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13. ^ 42% of 200,000 [https://upgnorthamerica.com/project/afghans-in-north-america/ Afghan Americans] = 84,000 and 15% of 363,699 [https://www.americanpakistan.org/pakistani-americans Pakistani Americans] = 54,554. Total Afghan and Pakistani Pashtuns in USA = 538,554.