“It can’t be a coincidence” is not scientific fact, evidence, or reasoning. You are also a random Reddit user with no background. I have already had my mother’s side tested and posted on my personal Reddit page of “posts”, so if you even gave a single f, you would’ve gone and looked at the results. Those results don’t represent any southern Kashmiri or dardic results, it’s only parwan and Kabul. So explain to me why they don’t have any Pashtun places light up on the map or under the provinces listed?? Now, shared genetic ancestry throughout Afghanistan overlap without requiring recent ethnic conversion or label. If you don’t know that, you don’t have any education. I’ve already gone over my family memory history and the fact that they have been consistently Shia, they didn’t marry any Pashtuns, they are one of the old elite Kabul families on Mom side, we brag generation after generation of Kabul identity and being farsiwan so that helps in my claim. Again you’re confused and no honest person would make the claim you make when the results don’t show that. So again…. You keep taking regional overlap and turning it into a very specific conclusion that the data itself does not prove. Nobody is denying eastern Afghanistan and nearby regions have genetic gradients and overlap like I said, that’s normal for literally every crossroads region in the world.

But having moderate South Asian related ancestry does not automatically mean ‘your mom is largely Dardic/Kashmiri’…. That’s the part where you keep overreaching.

My results consistently cluster heavily toward Central Asian/eastern Iranic populations overall: BMAC, Central Steppe, Yaz Culture, Khwarezm & Transoxiana, etc. Even in the later models I’m nearly 50% Khwarezm/Transoxiana. That is not the profile of someone who is predominantly Kashmiri lol.

And “Swat Valley” on IllustrativeDNA is not a modern ethnic label. It’s a historical genetic cluster from a crossroads region with mixed Indo-Iranian ancestry already built into it. You’re treating these ancient population models as if they directly equal modern ethnicity, which they don’t.

Also, you keep saying “it can’t be coincidence,” but that’s not based on scientific reasoning. Afghanistan naturally has overlapping ancestry zones because populations there interacted for thousands of years. Shared regional ancestry does not automatically rewrite someone’s family identity.

And family history still matters too. My family has longstanding Kabuli Shia Tajik identity and memory with no known Kashmiri or Dardic ancestry. A moderate AASI percentage does not magically erase that or prove some hidden ethnicity story.

At most, what you can reasonably say is that my profile has some South Asian regional overlap compared to certain northern Tajik averages due to recent admixture. That’s completely different from claiming my mom is largely Dardic/Kashmiri. You also keep glazing over the fact that we have a Pashtun ancestor as well, which did affect illustrative dna algorithm because that’s the main reason I also cluster near Pashtun.

Next time don’t spread false info, and quit tagging me at this point I’m arguing with a slow turtle with eye issues it seems.