Re: Ghurids were Pashtuns
This belief is most certainly not widespread, at least not in my experience. If anything, it is a negligible minority who hold this belief. If you even suggest to most Pashtun people that they may have Semitic (read: Jewish) origins, they will respond rather defensively and that’s phrasing it nicely. A couple of years ago, a gentleman produced a documentary examining this theory, and he received death threats while doing research for his film back home on account of the fact that many people viewed the subject of his film as “defamation” and “spreading lies.”