Originally Posted by
Truthbetold
We saw the plots, PCA's, and quotes from genetic papers on the first page. Personal opinions can't change reality especially when hard facts are posted. Pashtuns are a South-Central Asian people, historically and culturally. Their tribalistic culture and overal mores are close to Central Asians. But genetically, they're clearly South Asian.
If they're not South Asian genetically (as in belonging with other South Asians), then so are not the Punjabi Jatts, Kashmiris, Sindhi's, Himachali's, High Caste Northern Hindu Indians etc, whom the Pashtuns cluster closely with, and yes such statement would be an obvious fallacy.