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If the pashtun belt of Afghanistan is not part of the subcontinent than pashtun areas of Pakistan are not part of the subcontinent either.
Which means Gandhara and Hindu Shahi is not part of subcontinent history either. You cant have it both ways on Afghanistan that there pre islamic past is part of subcontinent history, and then once that area became Muslim those areas are foreign.
BTW there are millions of people in Punjab Pakistan who are of pathan heritage, with the most famous one being Imran Khan Niazi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathans_of_Punjab
Tbf Gandhara only recently became Pashtun majority in the past few centuries.