 Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan  , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ;
<meaning-changed>  Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan  , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ;
 Out of anti-Russian strategic interests, the British assisted the Afghan conquest of the Uzbek Khanates, giving weapons to the Afghans and backing the Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan by Pashtuns , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ;