High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Afghan (Pashtun/ Pukhtun) stock belief in their lineage from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel is an oral tradition passed from generation to generation and backed up by Afghan tradition, custom and names. It has been mentioned numerously in historical texts and local folklore in addition to modern research. It is important to note that Afghans not being a homogenous group, the Bani Israelite tradition is also not present or claimed by all tribes. Among the tribes that it has been claimed by include the Afridi, Yusufzai, Khattak, Shinwari.