Kurds in Afghanistan

Kurds in Afghanistan refers to Afghans who are ethnic Kurds and culturally Kurdish.
History
The oldest proof of Kurds in Afghanistan was during the Mongol invasion, when the Kurds were taken from northwestern Iran into present-day Afghanistan to fight the Mongols, the same reason as the Khorasani Kurds, who were sent to Khorasan to create a defense-line against Turkmen and Uzbek nomads. Kurds have been coming to Afghanistan at different times and lived there. Another large wave of Kurdish migration into Afghanistan was the continuation of their migration from Iranian Kurdistan to greater Khorasan during the Afsharid dynasty.
Two main groups formed Nader Shah's army. The first was a group of Shahsevan Turks who were in charge of warfare and combat, and the second was a group of Kurds who accompanied Nader's army. The Kurds who accompanied Nader Shah Afshar were scattered in three cities in present-day Afghanistan. Ghazni, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul.
Culture
After several centuries away from their original homeland, Afghan Kurds have kept their culture and language, although many of them now speak better Dari then Kurdish. While a lot of Kurds in Afghanistan have settled, many still practice their farming nomadic lifestyle, living in the mountains of Afghanistan with goats and sheep.
In Kabul, a Kurdish bathhouse and a Kurdish mosque still remain. The mosque is made of pure wood, and the architecture of the mosque also shows that it was originally a Sufi temple. Historian Pahlavan Mansour believes that the mosque is more than a hundred years old, but the Ministry of Information and Culture of Afghanistan believe that it is 230 years old.<ref name"auto1"/><ref name"auto2"/>

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