Khan_Sama wrote:
I'm a former Muslim (transformed into a Baha'i now). I belong to the Lodi clan of the Ghilzai Pashto tribe, I have Persian, North Indian, South Indian, Arab, and Russian ancestry. My family has lived in India since the Lodi conquest of the north, and the last person to speak a dialect of Pashto in my immediate family was my great-grandfather.
My surname is Khan. My mother's surname was Abdul Aleem before she got married, her father was a South Indian Muslim, distantly related to Tipu Sultan's family. My grandmother's family, however, is mostly Persian and Arab.
As far as I'm concerned, Pashtos orignially practiced a varient of the Indo-Iranian polytheistic faith. After a period of time, many converted to Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and possibly Manichaeism. Regarding Greek influence in Bactria, I see no evidence showing Greek influence on the Pakhts, however, there's some genetic and religious influence over the Dards (regarding religion, before they converted to Islam) of Nuristan and the Kalasha of Chitral.
Interesting theory on the Pashtuns being one of the lost tribes of Israel.
Russian ancestry, i think you mean Turkic and Mongol ancestry.