as their mother tongue while others as a second language. These include the Tahirkhelis, Yusufzais, Jadoons and Tareens. The other Hindko speakers include the Sayyids, Awans, Mughals, Malik, Raja, kumar, khatri, sethi, Tanolis, Swatis, Turks, Qureshis and Gujjars. The most common second language for Hindko-speakers in Pakistan is Urdu and the second most common one is Pashto. In most Hindko-speaking areas, speakers of Pashto live in the same or neighbouring communities (although this is less true in Abbottabad and Kaghan Valley). The relationship between Hindko and its neighbours is not one of stable bilingualism. In terms of domains of use and number of speakers, Hindko is dominant and growing in the north-east; in Hazara for example, it is displacing Pashto as the language in use among the few Swatis that speak it, and in the Neelam Valley of Azad Jammu & Kashmir it is gaining ground at the expense of the minority languages like Kashmiri. In the cities of Kohat and Peshawar, on the other hand, it is Hindko that is in a weaker position. With the exodus of the Hindko-speaking Hindus and Sikhs after partition and the consequent influx of Pashtuns into the vacated areas of the urban economy, there have been signs of a shift towards Pashto. Notable Hindko-speakers Ahmad Faraz Ali Khan Jadoon Anwar Shamim Asghar Khan Ayub Khan Azam Khan Swati Baba Haider Zaman Bashir Ahmad Bilour Bashir Jehangiri Dilip Kumar, stage name for Yusuf Khan Firdous Jamal Gohar Ayub Khan Ghulam Ahmad Bilour Haider Zaman Khan Imran Ashraf Iqbal Zafar Jhagra Jalal Baba Mehtab Abbasi Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi Mulk Raj Anand Murtaza Javed Abbasi Omar Ayub Khan Qateel Shifai Raj Kapoor Sardar Zahoor Ahmad Sardar Muhammad Yousuf Salahuddin Tirmizi Shibli Faraz Vinod Khanna Yasir Hameed Zahirul Islam Abbasi See also Hazarewal Tribes and clans of the Pothohar Plateau Pahari people (Kashmir) Farsiwans Notes and references Bibliography Hindkowan people Punjabi people Indo-Aryan peoples Ethnic groups in Pakistan Hindkowan tribes