afghanistan is the source of the hotak dynasty
the land also served as the source from which the kushans  hephthalites  samanids  saffarids  ghaznavids  ghorids  khiljis  mughals  hotaks  durranis  and others have risen to form major empires
the hotak dynasty or the hotaki dynasty was an afghan monarchy of the ghilji pashtuns  established in april 1709 by mirwais hotak after leading a successful revolution against their declining persian safavid overlords in kandahar