In 1919, during the expanding of mass media, published Seraj-al-Akhbar, which became the first Pashto newspaper in Afghanistan.
In Akbari, Suzanne Conklin; Iannucci, Amilcare eds.
Some Pashtuns travelled to as far away as during the same era.
If we want to assume that this agreement points to some special connection, and not to a secondary, parallel development, we should have to admit that one branch of pre-Paṣ̌tō had already, before the splitting off of Waṇ.
Additionally, Pashtuns are the second-largest , forming 15% to 18% of the country's total population, and are considered one of the five major ethnolinguistic groups of the nation.
Somewhat later the 14th-century traveller reported that the wall was sixty days' travel from the city of , which is on the coast of China; the translator notes that Ibn Battuta has confused the with that built by.