 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 ;
<clarity>  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 supporting the Afghan government's colonization of northern Afghanistan , which involved sending massive amounts of Pashtun colonists onto Uzbek land ;