Jews of Central Asia

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Bukharan Jews are not really Sephardic ethnically. They've never been to Spain. They just adopted Sephardic liturgy. They are really Mizrahi.

Most of the Bukharan Jews are of Persian origin and went there in the 1600s, I believe, and are correctly Mizrahim. Today, we have a larger wider view of what is Sephardic. Today, it seems we also include those from Iberia directly, those from the Sephardic diaspora, as well as non-Iberian communities such as Iran and Afghanistan. We do this because their liturgy, traditions and customs are more like Sephardic normative traditions than like Ashkenazi. Today the definition of Sephardic - except for some researchers - is anyone who comes from a non-Yiddish-speaking, non-Eastern European Ashkenazi tradition.

Yes, but some oder communities (e.g. Italians) object to being lumped together as Sephardi simply because they are not Ashkenazi.