Uzbeks in Pakistan

Uzbeks
اۉزبېکلر
O‘zbeklar
Total population
c. 1 million
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups

Uzbeks are a minority in Pakistan. With just over 1 million Uzbeks living in Pakistan. They were one of the first Karluk tribes to arrive in the modern-day region of Pakistan; they ruled the area of Pakhli (modern-day Hazara) for over 200 years from 1472 to 1703. Uzbeks form a significant minority group in the region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[2]

There are many Uzbek immigrants in Pakistan from Central Asian countries, mainly Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Around 2.3% of the Afghans residing in Pakistan are ethnic Uzbeks.[3] The Afghan War drove them to Pakistan.[4] In 1981, many Afghan Uzbek refugees in Pakistan moved to Turkey to join the existing communities based in Kayseri, İzmir, Ankara and Zeytinburnu.[5] The Uzbeks can be found mainly in north-west Pakistan, comprising the areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (in particular Peshawar), Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan. Additionally, Uzbek militants allied to al-Qaeda from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Islamic Jihad Union are believed to reside in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Their number at their height was predicted to be anywhere from 500 to 5,000.[6] Now, only a few hundred foreign militants of various nationalities are thought to remain in Pakistan[7] – the majority either having been killed by the Pakistani military's Zarb-e-Azb operation launched in 2014 or shifting to other theaters of jihadist conflicts, such as Syria.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The language is alternately known as Lashkari (لشکری)[1]

References

  1. ↑ Singh, Shashank, and Shailendra Singh. "Systematic review of spell-checkers for highly inflectional languages." Artificial Intelligence Review 53.6 (2020): 4051-4092.
  2. ↑ "Pakistan's 'fanatical' Uzbek militants". BBC News. 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  3. ↑ "Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
  4. ↑ Audrey Shalinsky (1994). Long Years of Exile: Central Asian Refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan. University Press of America. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8191-9286-8.
  5. ↑ Espace populations sociétés. Université des sciences et techniques de Lille, U.E.R. de géographie. 2006. p. 174.
  6. ↑ "Islamist Uzbeks lead terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan – Generational Dynamics". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
  7. ↑ "THE DEATH KNELL FOR FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN PAKISTAN?" by Raza Khan in the November/December 2014 edition of "CTC Sentinel Journal" published by the Combating Terrorism Center at Westpoint University

Sources

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