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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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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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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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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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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Afghans (redirect from People of Afghanistan)
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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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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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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Mauritanian People's Party Parry People Movers, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement...
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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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Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; Pashto: پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ, Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang; Urdu: پشتون تحفظ تحریک, Pashtūn Tahaffuz Tehreek lit. 'Pashtun...
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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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Muhammed Akbar Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (category Pashtun people)
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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Sanwal Esakhelvi (category Pashtun people)
Sanwal "Atta" Esakhelvi is a British-Pakistani visual effects supervisor, sound designer, singer, musician and songwriter. Before establishing himself...
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Ethnic groups in Afghanistan (redirect from Peoples of Afghanistan)
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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Pashtuns of Kashmir and the Pathans in Kashmir (also called Kashmiri Pathans) include Pashtun people (Pathans) that may still follow Pashtunwali and speak...
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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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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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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 serving as the...
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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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Bilal Abbas Khan (category Pashtun people)
Today. Retrieved 21 January 2019. Ally Adnan (24 September 2018), "I want people to remember me for my work: Bilal Abbas Khan", Daily Times. Retrieved 9...
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The Wardak (Pashto: وردګ) or Wardag are a tribe of the Pashtun people. That mainly live in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan. They migrated to the Wardak...
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Aitzaz Hasan (category Pashtun people)
Herald's Person of the Year for 2014. Aitzaz Hasan was born to a Bangash Pashtun family of Hangu, his father is Mujahid Ali, who was in the United Arab...
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decoration of the Indian Coast Guard Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people Polygyny threshold model, a theory...
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