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I haven't seen anyone talk about this but there's a ethnic group in China's Xinjiang called " Pamiri " and physically they look 100% just like the ethnic Kalash, Hunza who live in Indian's/Pakistan Kashmir. It's hard to be believe they don't belong to the same origin considering their close geographic locations. That part of Xinjiang ( Uyghurs territory ) which is now all part of China's territory historically belong to the ingenious Pamiri people. They are also indigenous to east Tajikistan. They are considered different people by ethnic Tajiks. The Tajiks don't consider them Tajiks. The Uyghurs of Xinjiang also don't consider them the same.
Should these people part of Kashmir region of India/Pakistan ?
Ethnic Pamiri (Sarikol speakers ) in China
History
Tashkurgan Town became the capital of the Sarikol kingdom (色勒库尔), a kingdom of the Pamir Mountains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkurgan_Town#History
Their kingdom dates back at least 2000 years ago or even 200 BC while the Uyghurs only started migrating around 842 AD
Ethnic Kalash/Hunza people
Even in terms of genetics they are 80-85% West Eurasian, 15-20% South Asian.
Pics of so called Pamiris you posted are actually Pashtuns and Kalash from Chitral.
As for Pamiris .. most of them are native to Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral (KPK Province).
Some are spread in China and Afghanistans Wakhan Corridor (20 km strip neighbouring Chitral) .
Daric people arent iranic .. infact their languages arent related to any language in the world.... they have their own writing script aswell.It's incorrect to even call it China and anyone who read history will realize it was never China. It's only part of China due to conquest and nothing more.
Again it's not China and NEVER HAD BEEN CHINA.
Even the historical ethnic groups that lived next to those Indo-Europeans and later Turkic people were Tibeto-Burman tribes from Qinghai and Gansu. For ethnic Han Chinese to even have contact with those ancient Indo-Europeans they had to get through those Tibeto-Burmese people who were related with Tibetans.
But isn't the last second guy a ethnic Kalash ?
It's hard to believe these Pamiris and ethnic Kalash have nothing to do with eachother considering their geographic locations and strong physical resemblences
They must be related
Yes, Dardic people are also Iranic. It must mean they shared the same origin/ancestors but linguistically changed after they migrated to different regions. The Pamiri language is heavily influenced by Tajiks and by physically appearance Tajiks are black hair, dark eyes and ussually look more like Persians.
Daric people are “indo european” but purely native to GB region... however .. the region has had alot of Tibetan influences due to thousands of years of contact through trading,politics etx.
Even today Ancient Chinese and Tibetan coins and currencies can be viewed in GB museums and heritage centers.