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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Central Pashtuns of Afghanistan

The Central Pashtuns of Afghanistan, numbering approximately 2,900,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an Eastern Iranian ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Balochistan, Kyber Pakhtunkwa and Punjab provinces of Pakistan They are an Diaspora people, with Pashtun as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Pashtun people cluster of the Persian-Median Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Pashto, Central.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Afghanistan
People Cluster: Pashtun
Primary Language(s): Pashto, Central (pst)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 2,900,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG049304

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pashto, Central
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
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Pashto, Central Speakers

Media Resources in Pashto, Central:

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Bible Resources in Pashto, Central:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Central Pashtuns are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Central Pashtuns:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Central Pashtuns of Afghanistan

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
readPsalm 65:9

Give thanks for God's provision in nature, and pray that those who don't know Him will recognize His hand, desire to know their Creator, and hear the truth that Jesus is the solution to the world's greatest need.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
read2 Peter 3:9

Pray that those God sends to cross cultures will patiently endure hardships as they share the gospel, knowing that the Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise.

Pashtun, Central Across Countries (ROP3 - 106050) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Central PashtunsPG049304Central PashtunsAfghanistan2,900,000Engaged yet UnreachedPashto, CentralSunni Islam
Central PashtunsPG046640Central PashtunsPakistan2,720,000Engaged yet UnreachedPashto, CentralSunni Islam

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