The major Turkic tribes are the Qizilbashs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzs, Turkmens, and Hazaras.
The Qizilbashs came to Afghanistan during the Afsharid and Durrani rule in Afghanistan and since they worked at high government jobs, but also made up parts of the army, especially when Timur Shah Durrani wanted to get rid of the dependency on Pashtun tribes and expanded his army by 12.000 Qizilbash soldiers.
[1] Today they live in big cities like Kabul, Mazar e Sharif, and Kandahar.
[citation needed] They speak the same language as their ethnic equivalents in Central Asia.
The number of them was 1,130 in 2003, all from eastern Wakhan District[2] in the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan.