What is Dards?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Dardic peoples | image = | caption = | population = | poptime = | popplace = Northern [[Pakistan]] ([[Gilgit-Baltistan]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]])<br />Northwestern [[India]] ([[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[Ladakh]])<br />Eastern [[Afghanistan]] ([[Kapisa Province|Kapisa]], [[Kunar Province|Kunar]], [[Laghman Province|Laghman]], [[Nangarhar]], [[Nuristan]]) | langs = [[Dardic languages]] | rels = Predominantly: [[Islam]] ([[Sunni]], [[Shia]] and [[Noorbakshia Islam|Sofia Noorbakhshia]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wemountains.com/amp/02/05/400/|title=Introduction to Dardistan}}</ref><br />Minority: [[Hinduism]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_QnAAAAYAAJ|title=Longman Guide to Living Religions|last=Harris|first=Ian Charles|date=1994|publisher=Stockton|isbn=978-1-56159-089-6|language=en}}</ref> [[Ancient Hinduism]]/[[Animism]] ([[Kalash people]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgZuAAAAMAAJ|title=The India Magazine of Her People and Culture|date=1993|publisher=A. H. Advani|language=en}}</ref> | related = Other [[Indo-Aryan peoples]] }} The '''Dards''' are a group of un-mixed [[Indo-Aryan people]] living in Northern [[Pakistan]], Western [[Jammu & Kashmir]], and Eastern [[Afghanistan]] who speak the [[Dardic languages]]. A very small minority also live in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] and [[Tajikistan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dards, Dardistan, and Dardic: an Ethnographic, Geographic, and Linguistic Conundrum|url=http://www.mockandoneil.com/dard.htm|access-date=2023-01-01|website=www.mockandoneil.com}}</ref> Dardic is a geographical phrase, not a ethnic or linguistic one.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fQEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|title=Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality: New Approaches|last=Kellner|first=Birgit|date=2019-10-08|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3-11-041314-4|language=