↑ 2.02.1Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects. Congressional Research Service (26 January 2007). — «The census found 3,049,268 Afghans living in Pakistan, 42% of them in camps and 58% in urban areas. Over 81% of the Afghans were Pashtuns, with much smaller percentages of Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmen, and other ethnic groups (see Figure 1).» 1 май 2019 санҷида шуд.
↑Encyclopaedia Iranica, «Ghurids», C.E. Bosworth, (LINK): «... The Ghurids came from the Šansabānī family. The name of the eponym Šansab/Šanasb probably derives from the Middle Persian name Wišnasp (Justi, Namenbuch, p. 282).... The chiefs of Ḡūr only achieve firm historical mention in the early 5th/11th century with the Ghaznavid raids into their land, when Ḡūr was still a pagan enclave. Nor do we know anything about the ethnic stock of the Ḡūrīs in general and the Šansabānīs in particular; we can only assume that they were eastern Iranian Tajiks.... The sultans were generous patrons of the Persian literary traditions of Khorasan, and latterly fulfilled a valuable role as transmitters of this heritage to the newly conquered lands of northern India, laying the foundations for the essentially Persian culture which was to prevail in Muslim India until the 19th century....»
↑Encyclopaedia of Islam, «Ghurids», C.E. Bosworth, Online Edition, 2006: «… The Shansabānīs were, like the rest of the Ghūrīs, of eastern Iranian Tājik stock …»
↑Yasmeen Niaz Mohiuddin (2007). Pakistan: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. pp. 18–. ISBN978-1-85109-801-9. The Chitral and Kalash valleys of the Hindu Kush Mountains are located north of the Swat Valley in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province and are bordered by Afghanistan on the north, south, and west. The Wakhan Corridor separates Chitral from Tajikistan.
↑Wee.The Tajik People. World Atlas (25 April 2017). — «Tajik diaspora occurs in Afghanistan (9,450,000), Tajikistan (6,787,000), Uzbekistan (1,420,000), Pakistan (220,000), China (34,000), Russia (201,000), United States (52,000), Kyrgyzstan (47,500), Canada (15,870), and Ukraine (4,255).» 14 май 2019 санҷида шуд.
↑ 16.016.1Redden. Feature: Karachi exodus leaves rest of Afghan refugees pondering future, UNHCR (28 October 2002). Проверено 14 май 2019. «"I do want to go back, but God knows when," said Mohammed Islam, a Tajik from the northern Afghan province of Baghlan who left his country 20 years ago. "If the government helps us with housing or setting up a business, I will go."».
↑ 17.017.1Laurent Gayer (2014). Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN978-0-19-935444-3. Most of these Afghan refugees were of Pashtun stock but Karachi also became home to smaller contingents of Uzbeks (30,000 to 40,000 according to some estimates) and Hazaras and Tajiks (20,000 each).
↑How Somon Air is reaching new peaks. Routes Online (19 September 2018). — «In Uzbekistan, there are 15 million Tajik people split between [the cities of] Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara. Those are clear destinations that we are looking at and have negotiated rights for. We’ve got Afghanistan, which has more than ten million Tajiks… There’s Pakistan as well – Islamabad or Karachi...» 14 май 2019 санҷида шуд.
↑Korenyako.Somon Air to launch services to Afghanistan, Pakistan. Rusavia Insider (25 April 2016). — «Bandishoyev says that both Tajik tourists and businesspeople are interested in the establishment of an air route to Lahore.» 14 май 2019 санҷида шуд.