Encyclopædia Britannica (Hrsg.), 2000: Students' Britannica India: "Ghaffar Khan, who opposed the partition, chose to live in Pakistan, where he continued to fight for the rights of the Pashtun minority and for an autonomous Pakhtunistan (or Pathanistan) within Pakistan."
FC Westley (Hrsg.), 1950: The Spectator, Vol. 184: "Instead it adopted the programme of an independent "Pathanistan" — a programme calculated to strike at the very roots of the new Dominion. More recently the Pathanistan idea has been taken up by Afghanistan."