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	Ghilzai - LoveToKnow 1911
		GHILZAI, a large and widespread Afghan tribe, who extend from Kalat-i-Ghilzai on the S. to the Kabul river on the N., and from the Gul Koh range on the W. to the Indian border on the E., in many places overflowing these boundaries.
		The popular theory of the origin of the Ghilzais traces them to the Turkish tribe of Kilji, once occupying districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes), and affirms that they were brought into Afghanistan by the Turk Sabuktagin in the 10th century.
		However that may be, the Ghilzai clans now rank collectively as second to none in strength of military and commercial enterprise.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ghilzai (151 words)

	Ghilzai :: Khyber.ORG
		According to the Ethnologue Data from Languages of the World, 14th Edition, The Ghilzai speakers of Pashto are 24 % of the national population of Afghanistan.
		Some modern-day historians trace the origin of the Ghilzais to the Turkish tribe of Kilji, who once occupied the districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) and were brought into Afghanistan by the Turk Emperor Sultan Subaktagin in the 10th Century.
		The Ghilzai are the descendents of the Wu'chi (Indo-European/Turk) which absorbed the remnants of the Tocharian people (Indo-European) after the fall of the Tarim Basin to the Han (Chinese).
	www.khyber.org /pashtotribes/g/ghilzai-a.shtml (943 words)

	Ghilzai Information
		The Ghilzais (also known as Khiljis or Ghaljis) are one of two largest groups of Pashtuns, along with the Durrani tribe, found in Afghanistan with a large group also found in neighboring Pakistan.
		Most Ghilzai are Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school and are often devout to their faith and also follow the Pashtun code of honor known as Pashtunwali.
		The Taliban leadership and rank and file were largely composed of Ghilzai Pashtuns and other related tribes and this has placed the Ghilzai at odds with their Pashtun cousins, the Durrani tribe who are currently represented by the administration of Hamid Karzai and the central Afghan government.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ghilzai (503 words)

	Afghanistan - Ethnic Groups
		In 1996, approximately 40 percent of Afghans were Pashtun, 11.4 of whom are of the Durrani tribal group and 13.8 percent of the Ghilzai group.
		Then power shifted to the second largest Pushtun tribe, the Ghilzai, who dominated the leadership of the secular Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) after 1978, although most were essentially detribalized because of their close association with urban life.
		This regime was in turn replaced in 1992 by the Islamic State of Afghanistan, established by the mujahidin whose leaders were mostly from the Ghilzai, and a variety of eastern Pushtun tribes, although the President from 1992-1996 was a Tajik.
	countrystudies.us /afghanistan/38.htm (716 words)

	Chai Khaana - The Ghilzai Pashtuns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However that Inay be, the Ghilzai clans now rank collectively as second to none in strength of military and commercial enterprise.
		Ghilzai is a major dialect of western Pashtun.
		And though some ethnographers count Ghilzais to be a Mongolaid stock(Turks), a number of influential historians consider them to be yet another wave of Aryans that invaded the region south of Hindukush.
	www.pashto.org /chaikhaana/pashtun-matters-da-pakhtunu/225-ghilzai-pashtuns-print.html (2574 words)

	Media coverage of Afghan Friends Network
		Ghilzai, a former high-tech marketing executive, met Camilla Barry, a science teacher in San Francisco schools and principal of Barry Scientific who had traveled to Afghanistan to teach hands-on, experiment-based science program to Afghan teachers and youth in Kabul.
		Ghilzai fled Afghanistan in 1979 with her parents and five siblings and has pursued the American dream ever since.
		Ghilzai's father, who was dying of cancer at the time, reinforced this awakening.
	www.afghanfriends.net /media.html (6362 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ghilzai
		The Ghilzais (also known as Khiljis or Ghaljis) are one of two largest groups of Pashtuns, along with the Durrani tribe, found in Afghanistan with a large group also found in neighboring Pakistan.
		In 1709, Mirwais Khan Hotak, a Ghilzai Pashtun and founder of the short-lived Hotaki Dynasty (1709-38), led an Afghan tribal revolt against Persian rule that eventually led to the short-lived Afghan domination of Persia from 1722 until 1734 when Nadir Shah began to wrest control from the Ghilzais.
		The Taliban leadership and rank and file were largely composed of Ghilzai Pashtuns and other related tribes and this has placed the Ghilzai at odds with their Pashtun cousins, the Durrani tribe who are currently represented by the administration of President Hamid Karzai and the central Afghan government.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ghilzai (529 words)

	First Afghan War - Battle of Kabul and Retreat to Gandamak
		A further complete brigade of the force was withdrawn, leaving the remaining regiments to settle into garrison life as if in India, summoning families to join them, building a race course and disporting themselves under the increasingly menacing Afghan gaze.
		Throughout the journey his column was subjected to continuing attack by Ghilzai tribesmen and the armed retainers of the Kabul Ameers.
		A desperate attack was mounted, the horse artillery driving their remaining guns at the abattis, but few managed to pass this fatal obstruction.
	www.britishbattles.com /first-afghan-war/kabul-gandamak.htm (2039 words)

	Afghanistan the Ghilzai Factor
		Khalq's Ghilzai leaders, Hafizullah Amin and Muhammad Taraki, began theprocess with the 1978 coup.
		On theopposing side Hekmatyar, Sayyaf, and Nabi are Ghilzais; Khalis is from aneighboring eastern Pushtun tribe (the Khugiani); Gailani and Mujaddidi are fromimmigrant Sufi families whose religious and political links are largely withGhilzais.
		The Ghilzai factor had major implications for the Kabul and the Peshawarsides.
	www.country-studies.com /afghanistan/the-ghilzai-factor.html (205 words)

	archive.gr - Greece in Central Asia
		Amanullah Ghilzai, the author of the account that follows, is a Pashtun journalist, who has contributed to several BBC reports, news and papers.
		Mr Ghilzai's research is part of a genuine "academic point of view" in which he, as a Pahstun, tries to recover part of a cultural oral heritage, linking several Pashtun and Dardo-Kafir tribes to a Greek and Bactrian ancestry, following traditional genealogies.
		Ghilzai’s documentary provides some dramatic clues of past Greek influence in archaeological findings that have not been studied or are still insufficiently published, in surviving customs, dresses and objects of everyday use.
	www.archive.gr /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 (5491 words)

	Babur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Babur believed himself the rightful heir to the throne of Timur, and it was Timur who had originally left Khizr Khan in charge of his vassal in the Punjab, who became the leader, or Sultan, of the Delhi Sultanate, founding the Sayyid dynasty.
		The Sayyid dynasty, however, had been ousted by Ibrahim Lodhi, a Ghilzai Afghan, and Babur wanted it returned to the Timurids.
		Indeed, while actively building up the troop numbers for an invasion of the Punjab he sent a request to Ibrahim; "I sent him a goshawk and asked for the countries which from old had depended on the Turk", the 'countries' referred to were the lands of the Delhi Sultanate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babur (4167 words)

	Afghanistan Ethnic Groups
		In 1996, approximately 40 percent of Afghans were Pashtun, 11.4 of whom areof the Durrani tribal group and 13.8 percent of the Ghilzai group.
		Then power shifted to the second largest Pushtuntribe, the Ghilzai, who dominated the leadership of the secular DemocraticRepublic of Afghanistan (DRA) after 1978, although most were essentiallydetribalized because of their close association with urban life.
		This regime wasin turn replaced in 1992 by the Islamic State of Afghanistan, established by themujahidin whose leaders were mostly from the Ghilzai, and a variety of easternPushtun tribes, although the President from 1992-1996 was a Tajik.
	www.country-studies.com /afghanistan/ethnic-groups.html (584 words)

	Afghanistan - The Ghilzai Factor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Khalq's Ghilzai leaders, Hafizullah Amin and Muhammad Taraki, began the process with the 1978 coup.
		On the opposing side Hekmatyar, Sayyaf, and Nabi are Ghilzais; Khalis is from a neighboring eastern Pushtun tribe (the Khugiani); Gailani and Mujaddidi are from immigrant Sufi families whose religious and political links are largely with Ghilzais.
		The Ghilzai factor had major implications for the Kabul and the Peshawar sides.
	countrystudies.us /afghanistan/113.htm (221 words)

	Afghanland.com AfghanistanMirwais Khan Hotaki
		The principal contenders in these tribal disputes came from the two most important Pushtun groups in the Kandahar area, the Ghilzai and the Abdali (later Durrani), between whom there was long-standing enmity.
		The Persians were adept at manipulating such machinations and their rule at Kandahar was tolerant until the court at Isfahan began to sink in decadence.
		Gurgin, advocate of law by force, burnt, plundered, murdered and imprisoned, but the tribes would not be subdued; revolts were crushed only to break out anew and Mirwais, credited with master-minding the rebellions, was sent to Isfahan tagged as a highly dangerous prisoner.
	www.afghanland.com /history/mirwais.html (722 words)

	Origins of Pashtuns
		The Ghilzai Tribe is the biggest Afghan tribe.
		The Ghilzais are the archrivals of the Durranis another Afghan tribe.
		Olaf Caroe states in The Pathans that Ghilzais are descendants of Khalaj Turks who came with Attila and the Huns.
	www.khawaran.com /Engl_Nazary_OriginsOfPashtuns.htm (882 words)

	The Hotakis
		In 1709, Mir Wais Khan, a Ghilzai Pashtun and founder of the short-lived Hotaki Dynasty (1709-38), and leader of the Afghan tribal revolt against Persian domination that led to the foundation of modern Afghanistan.
		He was a Ghilzai chief who lived as a hostage at the court of the Safavid ruler in Esfahan while Kandahar was ruled by Gorgin Khan, a Georgian governor.
		A leader of the Hotaki Ghilzai tribe, successfully led an uprising against Gurgin Khan, the Safavid who had been brutally suppressing the tribe.
	www.afghan-network.net /hotakis (379 words)

	the Dutch Akhal Teke site - stallions
		Ghilzai, born on our farm in 2003, by Gargantua out of Khmara.
		Once Ghilzai is trained under saddle he will be put up for sale but we will possibly use him to cover a few mares this season.
		He combines the correct build and easy character of his sire with the extraordinary light-footed movements of his dam and we have great hopes for him as a sport horse.
	www.akhalteke.nl /en/?our_horses:stallions (427 words)

	Afghanistan Country Study
		Among the Kirghiz, for example, this unit is relatively stable, while among the Ghilzai Pashtuns it is quite fluid.
		Ghilzai lineages are diverse; some are organized with an institutionalized leadership position, while others coalesce around a charismatic male relative.
		Should an impoverished Ghilzai man find it necessary to sell his patrimonial land, he should first sell to his closest neighbors (as should a Hazara).
	www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/Family.html (2302 words)

	Nancy Hatch Dupree. An Historical Guide To Afghanistan. Kandahar to Kabul
		Numerically, the Ghilzai are today the largest Pushtun group in Afghanistan and the heart of their homeland is at Kalat-i-Ghilzai (Fort of the Ghilzai), capital of Zabul Province, 136 km; 85 mi; 1½ hrs.
		Nineteenth century travellers approached the land of the Ghilzai between Kalat-i-Ghilzai and Ghazni with fear and trepidation for the “much dreaded” Ghilzai Pushtun were a large, fiercely independent, aggressively valiant Afghan tribe whose daring exploits fill the pages of Afghan history.
		The Ghilzai for their part sorely hampered the British in their task, for they saw the fort as a dagger plunged into their heartland.
	www.zharov.com /dupree/chapter18.html (3879 words)

	GHILZAI - Online Information article about GHILZAI
		GHILZAI, a large and widespread Afghan tribe, who extend from See also:
		The popular theory of the origin of the Ghilzais traces them to the See also:
		Turkish tribe of Kilji, once occupying districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes), and affirms that they were brought into See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GHILZAI.html (281 words)

	Chapter GHAUT <i>to</i> GHILZAI of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		The learned and eminently judicious William Erskine was also inclined to accept the identity of the two tribes, doubting (but perhaps needlessly) whether the Khiliji had been really of Turki race.
		Attention may be called to the expressions in the quotation from Ziauddin Barni, as indicating some great difference between the Turk proper and the Khiliji even then.
		The language of Baber, again, so far as it goes, seems to indicate that by his time the Ghilzais were regarded as an Afghan clan.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1274/20011/3.html (784 words)

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		The refugees, their captive constituency, were overwhelmingly Pushtun and overwhelmingly from the Ghilzai and eastern tribal areas.
		The Ghilzai Pashtuns even managed briefly to hold the Safavid capital of Isfahan, and two members of this tribe ascended the throne before the Ghilzai were evicted from Iran by a warrior, Nadir Shah, who became known as the "Persian Napoleon."
		In 1947 a revolt of the Safi tribe of the Ghilzai confederation had to be suppressed.
	afghanabbas.blogfa.com /post-1.aspx (17900 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Mirwais Khan Hotak Hotaki
		According to Afghanland.com sources, The principal contenders in these tribal disputes came from the two most important Pushtun groups in the Kandahar area, the Ghilzai and the Abdali (later Durrani), between whom there was long-standing enmity.
		As a matter of fact, because of these quarrels, the irritated Persians had forcibly transferred many of the turbulent Abdali to Herat by the end of the 16th century.
		Gurgin, advocate of law by force, burnt, plundered, murdered and imprisoned, but the tribes would not be subdued; revolts were crushed only to break out anew and Mir Wais, credited with master-minding the rebellions, was sent to Isfahan tagged as a highly dangerous prisoner.
	www.afghanland.com /history/hotak.html (733 words)

	In the Land of the Taliban - New York Times
		In the south, the Ghilzai were often treated as the nomadic, scrappy cousins.
		These days, the perception among the southern Ghilzai is that they are persecuted, that the jails are filled with their people, while the Durrani in the south received all the Japanese, U.S. and British contracts and jobs.
		He was a Ghilzai, from Helmand, and told me he had tried to lead a normal life under the official amnesty program.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/10/22/magazine/22afghanistan.html?pagewanted=4 (1187 words)

	Should foreign grads be used to solve U.S. R.Ph. shortage? - Drug Topics
		The number of job openings for pharmacists is expected to increase faster than openings in all occupations at least through 2012, according to BLS, primarily due to the increased medical needs of a population that is growing older and the increased use of medications.
		One estimate is that there will be a shortage of 157,000 pharmacists by 2020, said Naushad M. Khan Ghilzai, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of pharmaceutical sciences at LECOM School of Pharmacy in Erie, Pa. LECOM is the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
		Although the number of schools of pharmacy is increasing and many of the existing schools are enlarging their class sizes, the need for more pharmacists is outpacing these actions.
	www.drugtopics.com /drugtopics/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=136934 (854 words)

	Afghanistan Forum by AfghanSite.com > Tribe
		Jun 15 2006, 09:24 PM GHILZAI and DURRANI are the 2 main tribes..
		GHILZAI and DURRANI are the 2 main tribes..
		Jun 16 2006, 10:50 AM i am from the marwat tribe, which is related to Ghilzai, sulaiman khels, Lodhis and Niazis...
	forum.afghansite.com /lofiversion/index.php/t7975.html (3258 words)

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