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    are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. The total population of the Pashtun people worldwide is estimated to...
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  • (erstwhile) Pashtunistan is home to the majority of Pashtun people, there are significant local Pashtun diaspora communities scattered across the neighbouring...
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    Pashtunistan (redirect from Pashtun land)
    lit. 'land of the Pashtuns', Persian: پشتونستان) is a region located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the indigenous Pashtun people of southern Afghanistan...
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    Pashtuns, also known as Pakhtuns or Afghans, are an ethnic group that inhabit the Pashtunistan region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are one of the...
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  • Pashtun culture (Pashto: پښتون کلتور) is based on Pashtunwali, as well as speaking of the Pashto language and wearing Pashtun dress. Pashtunwali and Islam...
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  • The Pashtun people are classified as an Iranian ethnic group. They are indigenous to southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Although a number of theories...
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    The Pashtun tribes (Pashto: پښتانه قبايل), are tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who speak the Pashto language and follow...
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  • Pashtunwali (redirect from Pashtun wally)
    the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live. Many scholars widely have interpreted it as being "the way of the Pashtuns" or...
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    Pashtun cuisine (Pashto: پښتنۍ خواړه) refers to the cuisine of the Pashtun people and is covered under both Afghan and Pakistani cuisines. It is largely...
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    people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there. Afghanistan is made up of various ethnicities, of which Pashtuns...
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    Pashto (redirect from Pashtun language)
    Pashto as an extension of Pashtun culture; around 80,000 people attended the Society's annual meeting in 1927. In 1955, Pashtun intellectuals including...
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  • population, the Pashtun dress of Afghanistan is typically made from light linens, and are loose-fitting for ease of movement. Pashtun men usually wear...
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  • Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; Pashto: پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ, Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang; Urdu: پشتون تحفظ تحریک, Pashtūn Tahaffuz Tehreek lit. 'Pashtun...
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    The Turi or Torai are a tribe of the Pashtun people, inhabiting the Kurram Valley, in Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan...
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  • Pashtuns of Kashmir and the Pathans in Kashmir (also called Kashmiri Pathans/ Kashmiri Afghan ) include Pashtun people (Pathans) that may still follow...
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    The Mangal (Pashto: منگل) are a tribe of the Pashtun people residing in eastern Paktia and adjacent Khost provinces of Afghanistan, and in the town of...
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  • Pathan joke (redirect from Pashtun joke)
    about Pashtun people. The word "Pathan" (as opposed to the endonym "Pakhtun") is a Hindi word and it refers to Pashtuns or people who have Pashtun ancestry...
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  • Muhammed Akbar Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (4 August 1933 – 26 November 1942) was the first son of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former King of Afghanistan...
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    Hasan Akhund (category Pashtun people)
    Mohammad Hasan Akhund (born c. 1945 – c. 1950 or c. 1955 – c. 1958) is an Afghan mullah, politician and Taliban leader who is currently the acting prime...
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    Pashtun nationalism (Pashto: پښتون ملتپالنه) is an ideology that claims that the Pashtuns form a distinct nation and that they should always be united...
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  • Bibi Aisha (category Pashtun people)
    Bibi Aisha (Pashto: بي بي عایشه; Bibi is a term of respect meaning "Lady"; born Aisha Mohammadzai, legal name in the United States: Aesha Mohammadzai)...
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  • Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti (category Pashtun people)
    Laden. He was not a Kuwaiti and not an Arab, but rather he was an ethnic Pashtun and a Pakistani citizen. He adopted the last name al-Kuwaiti because his...
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    is synonymous with the ethnonym "Pashtun", but in modern times the term became the national identity of the people, who live in Afghanistan. The national...
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    Khugyani, Khogyani or Khogiani tribe is one of the Karlāṇī tribes of the Pashtun people. The tribe originated in the Khogyani district in Nangarhar province...
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  • Ahmad Shah (Taliban) (category Pashtun people)
    Ahmad Shah (nom de guerre Mohammad Ismail; c. 1970 – c. April 2008) was an Afghan militant leader who commanded a group of fighters operating in eastern...
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  • Ismail Shahid (category Pashtun people)
    Ismail Shahid (born August 17, 1955) is a Pakistani TV actor and comedian. He is known for his comic performances in the Pashto drama "Rang Pa Rang". Shahid...
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    Qais Abdur Rashid (category Pashtun people)
    said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring...
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  • Khan Abdul Bahram Khan (category Pashtun people)
    Pakistan. Abdul Bahram Khan was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of Pashtun tribe Mohammadzai in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, British India...
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    Bakht Khan (category Indian people of Pashtun descent)
    General Bakht Khan (1797–1859) was the commander-in-chief of the Indian rebel forces in the city of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the...
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  • Javed Afridi (category Pashtun people)
    Muhammad Javed Afridi (Urdu, Pashto: محمد جاويد افريدی; born 14 August 1985) is a Pakistani business executive and entrepreneur. He is best known as the...
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