utc actually the hotaks were firstly mentioned as first afghans years later so till those days they were or became just a sub group of ghalzais like awghans today want to claim the whole history of pre afghanistani time for themself we have the same problem with the hotaks who count today to ghalzais so they are today de facto ghalzais and everyone recognize them as such one also scienists the ghalzais self are also not pashtuns awghans since they are khaljis but today they count to pashtuns october