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Pakhtas
Pakthas or Pakhtas was an ancient VedicIndo-Aryan tribe living in the northern borderlands of South Asia. They are sometimes identified with the Pactyans of Herodotus.
It is theorised that they are the ancestors of modern Pashtuns, based on the phonetical similarity between the words Pakhta and Pakhtun (alternate for Pashtuns).