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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Tajiks of Pakistan

The Tajiks of Pakistan, numbering approximately 1,885,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Dari-speaking Tajik diaspora from Afghanistan, shaped largely by successive waves of Afghan displacement into neighboring Pakistan since 1979. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Dari is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Pakistan
People Cluster: Tajik
Primary Language(s): Dari (prs)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 1,885,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024392
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Dari
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Dari Speakers

Media Resources in Dari:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Dari:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Good News for a New Age✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Dari bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Tajiks 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 Tajiks:
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 Tajiks of Pakistan

For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
readPsalm 18:31

As people look to their own efforts for hope, pray they will have the opportunity to learn and believe in the Lord, who is the only Rock worthy of their faith.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
readEphesians 6:18

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be alert and persistent in prayer for all believers, offering their requests with thanksgiving.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Tajik Across Countries (ROP3 - 109733) reported in the following countries:

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11 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TajiksPG024018TajiksAfghanistan11,470,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksPG024529TajiksTajikistan7,410,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024392TajiksPakistan1,885,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksPG024315TajiksUzbekistan1,730,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG050099TajiksRussian Federation1,240,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024369TajiksKyrgyzstan65,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024296TajiksKazakhstan34,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG050462TajiksGermany25,000Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024637TajiksTurkmenistan5,900Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG047418TajiksCanada3,100Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG047175TajiksUnited States2,400Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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