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	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		The Kuchis are forgotten because of their residence in remote and insecure areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the hostility of other ethnic groups to them, and the lack of a ready solution to the problems they face.
		Kuchis who have livestock are often unable to drive their flocks to their traditional summer grazing pastures in the central highlands.
		A few Kuchis displaced from northwestern Afghanistan by the hostility of their neighbors have chosen to return to their homes, but others have settled in squalid settlements on the outskirts of cities such as Herat and Kandahar, where they are employed as day laborers.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/422C9630D8409DC287256E000059A44B?OpenDocument (939 words)

	Refugees International: Articles: Kuchi Nomads: Displaced and Destitute in Afghanistan
		The Kuchis, nearly all of whom are Pashtuns or Baluch, are probably the most destitute, least regarded, and least attended group in the Afghan population.
		Among the new grievances are allegations that the Kuchis were pro-Taliban and thus complicit in the massacres perpetrated against Hazaras in the 1990s.
		In the meantime, however, the Kuchis are vegetating in Afghan and Pakistani camps that are believed to be heavily infiltrated by the Taliban.
	www.refintl.org /content/article/detail/3017 (1007 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Kuchis losing their way
		The Kuchi tribes of Afghanistan are increasingly being thwarted from making their traditional migration due to hostility from local residents.
		The official added that in some cases former Kuchi lands in Jowzjan and other northwestern provinces have been converted to poppy growing, and that there is general opposition to the nomads from locals who want their region to be only one ethnicity - Uzbek and Turkmen.
		Kuchis from Laghman are attempting to move to Ghazni, even though they fear they will be attacked as they were last spring, said 60-year-old Hazrat Mulakhel, one of a group of 50 families passing through Kabul last week.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/df072f8330b87a4ec1256d1600520c8a (1199 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		The Kuchi — Persian for "those who move" — have trekked with sheep and goats through Afghanistan for centuries, a rugged Pashtun tribe that was largely left to its own devices.
		But today the Kuchi lifestyle is dying a slow death, weakened by 23 years of war, tempted by modernisation, mortally wounded by four years of drought and denied medicine by rising ethnic tensions.
		This year many Kuchis are trying to stick to traditional migration routes, driving their sadly depleted flocks from the lowlands in the winter towards the summer highland pastures.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /02aug18/inter.htm (2949 words)

	Dateline ACT
		ACT’s Afghan partners explained that this was a group of Kuchis, Afghan nomads, moving to cooler regions in summer— from the warm winter pastures in the lowlands to the high green fields — from Kandahar and Qalat to Ghazni — with their camels and sheep in search of fresh grass.
		The Kuchis are an ethnic minority in Afghanistan with their tribes roaming the country but nobody knows their exact numbers.
		Because the Kuchis are nomadic, criss-crossing the region, they are in extreme danger of stepping on one of the landmines littering the countryside — leftovers of 30 years of war in Afghanistan.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2002/dtafghan0802.html (492 words)

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		A mission conducted by MRRD and UNHCR to Kandahar in early 2004 showed that the Kuchis had laso everything in the drought and that conditions in Registan were not good enough fo their return.
		Kuchis from Registan have lost everything in their places of origin.
		One of the main problems the Kuchis presently face is the issue of land.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/014CC5470DB0241DC1256F2A004248DF?OpenDocument (260 words)

	Blue Wolf's Online Journal - Bravenet Web Journal
		Kuchis, Afghanistan’s nomadic people, will go to the polls on September 18 to cast their ballot for the ten lawmakers who will represent them in the new parliament.
		The Kuchis may not be represented at all in the upper house, or Meshrano Jirga, which in part is chosen by provincial councils.
		Kuchi voters are incensed at what they see as the government’s refusal to address their concerns, and fear that under-representation in the new parliament will only aggravate their situation.
	vagabondhas78.bravejournal.com /entry/14498 (1532 words)

	PWS&D Afghanistan Update, June 24, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It depicts the annual migrations of the pastoral Kuchis, a minority ethnic group in the region, and the dangers they face including landmines and drought in their travels across the borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
		ACT's Afghan partners explained that this was a group of Kuchis, Afghan nomads, moving to cooler regions in summer from the warm winter pastures in the lowlands to the high green fields from Kandahar and Qalat to Ghazni with their camels and sheep in search of fresh grass.
		Because the Kuchis are nomadic, criss-crossing the region, they are in extreme danger of stepping on one of the landmines littering the countryside, leftovers of 30 years of war in Afghanistan.
	www.presbycan.ca /pwsd/apafghan14.htm (536 words)

	AfghanEthnicDolls.com - kuchi
		But not everyone has a farm; close to 3 millions nomads (Kuchis) survive by migrating between the uplands and plains with their herds and flocks, taking advantage of the limited and seasonal grazing lands.
		Originally from Pashtun tribes, the Kuchi concentration is mostly in the warm climate areas of south and southeast of the country.
		Kuchi's outfits are similar to Pashtuns but with darker colors for women and white outfits for men.
	www.afghanethnicdolls.com /kuchi.html (723 words)

	FMR 21 : published September 2004
		Kuchis ("those who move" in Persian) is a term applied by outsiders to groups of tribal Pashtuns from southwestern and eastern Afghanistan who have migrated across large parts of Afghanistan with herds of goats, sheep, donkeys and camels.
		Kuchis unable to return to the central highlands due to the hostility of the Hazara would like to be allocated land in Kandahar - it is a right enshrined in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement that IDPs can settle in a location of their choice.
		Cycles of droughts and displacement are not a new phenomenon for the Kuchis.
	www.fmreview.org /text/FMR/21/13.htm (1978 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Afghan nomads place hope in poll
		Seven women are running for the three Kuchi seats - it is a tough call because the candidates have to travel all over the country to solicit votes in the absence of electoral constituencies.
		In her campaign travels through Kuchi tent cities all over the country, Ms Talwasa found that the nomads were tired of scrounging for a living and wanted to settle down and do odd jobs.
		Most Kuchis are jobless, she says, and do not have a clue about coping in modern-day jobs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4252086.stm (768 words)

	War and Modernity: Hard Times for Afghanistan's Kuchi Nomads
		For centuries, the nomadic Kuchi tribespeople - Kuchi in Persian means "those who move" - migrated across parts of Afghanistan semi-annually with their caravans of goat, sheep, donkeys and camels.
		In the eyes of the West, Kuchis are famous as silver and lapis lazuli bejeweled and brightly robed, carefree nomads.
		Kuchis are Pashtuns from southwestern and eastern Afghanistan.
	www.cursor.org /stories/kuchi.html (1631 words)

	Constitution of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At least 64 delegates (two from each province) must be women; they are appointed by the president who also nominates two representatives of the physically disabled, and two Kuchi nomads.
		Article 14 obliges the government to implement effective programs for "improving the economic, social and living conditions" of nomads (Kuchis) as well as adopting "necessary measures for housing and distribution of public estates to deserving citizens".
		The constitution requires the president to choose two special Kuchi representatives to sit in the Meshrano Jirga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitution_of_Afghanistan (1086 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kuchis are a community singled out by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, as one of the largest vulnerable populations in the country.
		Mohammad Omar Kuchi, 30, who lives in the same cluster of huts as Chaman Gul, is another of those who would seize the chance to settle down for good.
		Hasti Khan, who represented Kuchis in the north-east of the country at the Constitutional Loya Jirga, threatens a boycott of the upcoming elections if the numbers are not doubled.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/arr/arr_200401_103_1_eng.txt (943 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For thousands of years, the Kuchi have been shepherding their sheep, goats and camels between the mountains and the harsh, hot desert plains with the change of seasons.
		The Kuchis live and travel in small extended family groups, some with little more than a patch of canvas strung up over the dusty earth, others with a tent or quiltwork of patched material over crude mudbrick half-walls and the bare dirt.
		Because of their lifestyle, the Kuchi have one of the highest illiteracy rates in a country where half of all men and eight in 10 women are illiterate.
	today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=ISL251682 (710 words)

	RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By far the majority are nomadic shepherds, the Kuchis, who used to migrate hundreds of kilometres with their beautiful flocks, some families possessing as many as 500 sheep.
		But today, all that remains of their former prosperity are a few live animals and a bit of yoghurt diluted with water – the shalambe that many of the nomads feed themselves with.
		There is an assumption (a very politically correct one) that the Kuchis can never adapt to anything other than shepherding their own flocks.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/afghan?page=news&id=3d5798084 (1621 words)

	Wolf Song of Alaska: Danger from Wolves
		It's inhabitants are all Kuchis, (Afghanistan's nomadic people) who have lived in Registan Desert south of Kandahar for centuries herding their flocks of sheep north every summer for the high mountain pastures in Uruzgan and back down again in winter.
		Din Mohammad, a 70-year-old Kuchi sheep owner with 12 children and 36 grandchildren, says life in the camp is now a nightly terror.
		All the camps are inhabited by Kuchis who have been stranded on the desert's edge by the drought.
	www.wolfsongalaska.org /wolves_afghanistan.htm (780 words)

	Dancing in Aphganistan by Deanna for the Gilded Serpent
		Kuchis on the move on the treacherous road from Kabul to Jalalabad.
		The Kuchis also are strongly patriarchal, but the Taliban never dared to force Kuchi women to wear a burqa and even allowed them to sell wares in the marketplace.
		Kuchis: Nomads who are ethnic Pashtuns, from the same tribe as the Taliban and former Afghan king Mohammed Zaher Shah, who was overthrown in the early 70’s and who returned to Kabul this year as a cultural figurehead, but not a governmental leader.
	www.gildedserpent.com /articles20/aphgandance.htm (1900 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kuchis are a tightly knit nomadic tribe -- a minority with an estimated population of 3 million in Afghanistan.
		What Ahmadzai and the Kuchi leaders are demanding is all 45 of the members of their tribal council be employed as election educators.
		The Kuchis argue their leaders not only know how to find their wandering people, but they are the only ones who will be welcome when they do.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/6/5B4E2D1B-17AF-4BB3-9BB4-B7C2DD19ED83.html (855 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eyewitnesses say local Kuchis along the Kabul- Jalalabad highway in the Surkhakan region of Laghman province, opend fire on a traveling convoy of police officers accompanying the minister for refugee affairs, and other high-ranking government officials, who were launching a residential project in the Karikhel desert for returnees from Pakistan.
		The local Kuchis claim that the desert-land that they have set camp and pasture on is theirs and the Afghan government should not give it to others.
		Representatives of the Kuchi tribes claim that there are nearly 6million Kuchi tribal people in Afghanistan, but experts claim that this number is more likely to be in the region of 2million.
	www.sabawoon.com /news/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=21736 (324 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - New Constitution Doesn't Change Afghan Nomads' Hard Lot
		Thompson also reported encountering ethnic Hazaras, who voiced the belief that Kuchis collaborated with the defeated Taliban militia, which was, and remains, dominated by Pashtun elements.
		Kuchi political activists have denied a close association with the Taliban.
		"Kuchis who have livestock are often unable to drive their flocks to their traditional summer grazing pastures in the central highlands....In some areas, landmines hinder access to grazing land."
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav012904.shtml (928 words)

	Afghanistan Coin Necklace
		The Kuchis are a tribe of Sunni Muslim Nomads of Pashtun origin living mostly in what is now the Shomali Plain in Afghanistan (Summer) - Pakistan (Winter).
		Although the Kuchis' reputation for toughness is hidden behind their brightly colored clothing and attractive coin jewelry, they are none the less considered a strong and highly independent group.
		The wealth of a family is noted in their livestock and their coin jewelry which (as mentioned above) consists mainly of; Lapis lazuli (Latin=lapis, meaning stone and the Arabic azul, which refers to blue) or literally, 'blue rock', traditionally was revered in middle eastern societies as an amulet of great power.
	www.aurorahistoryboutique.com /ahb.cfm?a=P000034 (226 words)

	Adventurers Club: Kuchis and Camels
		The Kuchi tents were spaced far apart, and most of our day was spent getting from encampment A to encampment B, only to discover the men at encampment B were all out shepherding.
		In spite of two western women suddenly appearing in their campsites, unannounced, the Kuchis were remarkably hospitable.
		From a touristic perspective, it is all very charming, but I have to say it’s a brutal lifestyle, especially for the Kuchi women, and once again I’m thankful I was born in 20th century America.
	adventurersclub.blogspot.com /2005/04/kuchis-and-camels.html (324 words)

	Christian Web Site Forum Archive - ChristianWebSite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kuchis have also claimed compensation from the Hazara people for past use of their land, with no fair mechanism to ascertain these claims.
		The entrenched Kuchi belief in the duty to provide safe haven to a person on the run, coupled with near-universal illiteracy and a lack of communication with the outside world, is turning the usually neutral nomads into unwitting guardians and accomplices of Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in hiding, military officials in eastern Afghanistan say.
		They often stopped to chat, and would gave the Kuchis sweet dates from the Middle East and copies of the Koran, which Shinware says they happily tucked into their tents for safe keeping, but never read: becoming literate is something considered alien to the true Kuchi way.
	www.botcw.com /talk/archive/index.php/t-11525.html (2500 words)

	Afgha.com - Afghan constitution may give nomads a chance to live settled life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed the Kuchis, as the local nomads of Pakhtoon origin are known, have been singled out by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as one of the largest vulnerable populations in Afghanistan.
		Mohammad Omar Kuchi, 30, who lives in the same cluster of huts as Chaman Gul, is one of those who would seize the chance to be part of such schemes.
		There is, however, some continuing unhappiness at the numbers of Kuchi representatives both in parliament and at the Loya Jirga with some arguing that they should be much higher to be truly representative.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=40736 (1009 words)

	Afghanistan's nomads keen to vote for change .:. NewKerala - India's Top Online Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAGRAMI, Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Kuchi nomads have been following the seasons across the land for countless generations but this year some of them are interrupting their search for pastures to vote.
		About 60 Kuchi candidates, including seven women, are competing for their community's 10 reserved seats.
		Even during 25 years of conflict and turmoil the Kuchis largely kept to their nomadic ways, taking their flocks of fat-tailed sheep and camels to high pastures in the summer, and to lower, warmer areas in the winter.
	www.newkerala.com /news.php?action=fullnews&id=21045 (510 words)

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		The Registan Kuchis IDPs are pastoralists who use the Registan desert as a resource area and who have been displaced due to lack of drinking water and loss of livestock from 1999 onwards.
		Registan Kuchis are described as pastoralists who use the Registan as (one of their) their key resource area (s).
		The Inter-ministerial Commission on Kuchi and the Kuchi Vulnerability Committee are essential for the promotion of this issue with the relevant ministries.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/99F1B29274DD4C18C1256E1D005338BA?OpenDocument (1701 words)

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