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		A young Pashtoon Herati boy who has recently repatriated from Iran to Herat told that he had studied tenth grade in Iran and was interested to continue his studies, but non of the high schools was willing to accept him and made him different excuses.
		The Pashtoon people from Pashtoon Zarghoon told VOA that Sarwar Haidari who is known in the area as Sarwari Yakdast (one handed) and his friend Ghazi Mohammad both have been invovolved in many looting and rape cases against Pashtoon people in Pashtoon Zarghoon and and as well as in Obay area.
		A rich Pashtoon shopkeeper from Kala rayg district was kidnapped by the soldiers of Ismael Khan.
	www.sabawoon.com /news/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=11119 (1070 words)

	PashtoonMullah
		Mullah, among the Pashtoons, is a class of social parasite who breeds on ignorance and thrives on superstitions of the masses.
		Pashtoons seldom give their daughters in marriage to a Mullah, signifying that the Mullah is not a social equal in the social status ladder.
		And Pashtoons who have historically enjoyed loot and plunder, keeping in view their meager sources of subsistence and their liking for adventurism, have always been willing mercenaries to fight India in Kashmir, the infidel Russians in Chechnya and Bosnia and also his own kith and kin in Afghanistan.
	www.afghanology.com /PashtoonMullah.html (937 words)

	Women For Women International
		Pashtoon had little time to grieve the tragedy of her life.
		In December 2004, Pashtoon learned that Women for Women International was giving aid and support to socially excluded women living in and around Kabul.
		Pashtoon’s new-found joy and enthusiasm is apparent to anyone who sees her working with other women in the program.
	www.womenforwomen.org /sfafghanistan.htm (1025 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		Thus, Pashtoon success in the military theatre was in a sense offset by their defeat in how they were represented culturally and in the media.
		Comic Pashtoon characters in the role of chowkidars and durbans, speaking Pashto inflected Urdu, were needlessly inserted into Pakistani films (in the manner the ‘Gurkha’ chowkidar entered the Hindi film about this time), television dramas and radio plays to provide the light interludes.
		This was the result of a gradual change that overtook Pashtoon society over the recent decades—increasing levels of literacy in the community made a difference to the ways in which the Pashtoons could respond to the cultural lampooning.
	www.himalmag.com /march2001/analysis.html (4802 words)

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		Pashtoon rulers had also been unfair with their mother tongue and did not do any thing for the propagation and preservation of Pashto.
		While Pashtoons feel kinship with brother Pashtoons in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (which has led the Afghan government's irredentist claims on all the land to the banks of the River Indus), the Tadjiks' fellows were in the one of the six Soviet Union's Muslim republics Tadjikistan.
		Pashtoons are the original Afghan and Pashto is the language of Afghanistan.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Gulf/9506/PASHTOON.htm (5060 words)

	Jirga calls for Pashtoon enclave -DAWN - National; 05 November, 2004
		QUETTA, Nov 4: The Pashtoon Ulesi Jirga has called upon the government to restore the former chief commissioner province, comprising the Pashtoon areas of Balochistan.
		The parliamentary sub-committee members were apprised of the problems being faced by the people of the Pashtoon areas of Balochistan.
		He said that the Pashtoons' share in power be given constitutional protection for resolving the problems confronting the province.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/05/nat10.htm (197 words)

	Differences of Baloch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They also repeated the demand of Pashtoon Ulus Qomi Jirga for division of Balochistan besides drawing its attention towards the long drought situation in province.
		It is to be seen whether parliamentary committee wou-ld succeed in resolving the problems of Balochistan to the satisfaction of nationalist par-ties or not.
		Balochistan had witnessed a new height of differences of Baloch and Pashtoon nati-onalist parties over the issue of site of agriculture college, inclusion of Sariab area in limits of Quetta Municipal Corporation and holding of census in 1998, when Sardar Akhtar Mengal was Chief Minister.
	members.chello.se /balochistaninfo/YarMuhammadbadini.htm (934 words)

	(via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		About the origins of the Pashtoon, most scholars believe it more likely that they arose from an intermingling of ancient Aryans from the north or west with subsequent invaders.
		Several Pashtun clans are known to have moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan between the 13th and 16th century.
		In Pakistan, Pashtoon predominate north of Quetta between the Sulaiman Range and the Indus River.
	www.sabawoon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /afghanpedia/People.Pashtun.shtm (300 words)

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		The other reason may be the soft and delicate nature of this profession, which is considered among the Pashtoons to be the job of women folk.
		If we look through ages the Pashtoons have promoted music indirectly by generously spending on it rather lavishly by giving too much money to the musicians for their performance.
		It is also common among the Pashtoons that a boy of school would sing it, the elders in their hujrahs, the women in their home and Godar alike.
	maxpages.com /tameemrlung/Music - !http://www.maxpages.com/tameemrlung/Music (1890 words)

	A Country Abandoned
		Farming is the foundation of this tribalism, which in turn is the basis for deep internal conflicts that prevents this would-be nation from achieving a national identity.
		The Pashtoons are mostly concentrated in the south, the Tajiks in the north, and the Hazarehs in the central regions.
		For the Sunni Pashtoon it is a different trek that ends in the trap of another nation’s politics.
	zmag.org /ZMag/Articles/dec01makhmalbahf.htm (4673 words)

	Afghan midwife pioneers Afghanistan's midwifery education programs: Pashtoon Azfar works with REACH to reduce ...
		Pashtoon is actively providing REACH technical assistance to the Institutes of Health Science in both Kabul and the provinces as they rehabilitate their Schools of Midwifery and implement REACH Safe Motherhood objectives.
		Pashtoon is also involved in the implementation of standardized national midwifery and community midwife curricula, which will educate Afghan midwives into the future.
		Within a cultural context that has long excluded women from educational and professional opportunities, under Pashtoon's leadership, and with the support of the MOH and REACH, the Afghan Midwives Association is working to expand its membership and taking the steps necessary to qualify for membership in the International Association of Midwives.
	www.msh.org /afghanistan/news_room/stories/Afghan_midwives_association_2004.html (822 words)

	Worldandnation: Afghans worry that Iran is subverting Kabul
		Yusuf Pashtoon, a top aide to the governor of Kandahar province, said Wednesday night that two Iranian army generals had spent the past several weeks visiting Helmand, Nimruz and Farah provinces, distributing cash, goods and possibly arms to former warlords in an apparent effort to foment unrest.
		Officials in Kandahar have been especially concerned about persistent reports of Iranian meddling in Helmand province, a vast rural region adjacent to the city where some former Taliban commanders and renegade local warlords are thought to be operating.
		Pashtoon denied media reports that government troops from Kandahar were planning to travel to Helmand to rout the Iranians, but he said Kandahar's governor, Gul Agha Shirzai, on Monday asked top provincial officials to arrest any Iranians they found.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/24/Worldandnation/Afghans_worry_that_Ir.shtml (695 words)

	LSN - Landmine Survivors Network
		Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for the provincial government in Kandahar, told Reuters the accident happened near the home of deposed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who ruled Afghanistan (news - web sites) from Kandahar.
		Pashtoon said the team of five U.S. servicemen had been in the Mian Koh area, some four km (two miles) northeast of Kandahar, where they had been dynamiting unexploded bombs and shells.
		Pashtoon said the accident was the first of its kind in Kandahar, although there was an unexplained explosion outside the Kandahar governor's house on Friday, which did not cause any casualties.
	www.landminesurvivors.org /news_article.php?id=124 (425 words)

	Babab e Pashtoon Khan Adbul Samad Khan Achakzai - Hujra: Pakhtun's global community
		Pashtoon nation also had great leaders whose leadership brought prosperity and liberty to the nation.
		As a Pashtoon nationalist, Khan Samad Achakzai accompanied by his two colleagues Qazi Mohammad Qahir Khan and Obaidullah Khan journeyed to lahore in Dec 1929, to listen to indain nationalists including Dr.Saifullah Kuchlo and Sonobar Hussain Mohmand at annual Congregation of Indain Congress.
		QUETTA (PPI): Death anniversary of leader of movement for democracy, Pashtoon Qaumi Azadi and leader of Indo Pak freedom caravan Abdul Samad Achakzai would be observed on December 2.
	www.khyberwatch.com /forums/showthread.php?t=52 (1835 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Villagers Join Fight Against U.S., Afghan Forces
		The conflict began when those fighters fired on a detachment of 12 Special Forces soldiers, who called in a barrage of air support, said a spokesman for the U.S. military at Bagram air base, north of the capital of Kabul.
		Some of the pamphlets were issued by Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, Pashtoon said.
		In the fighting north and south of Kandahar, the forces battling Taliban fighters were composed "98 percent" of Gul Agha's men, backed by a small number of Special Forces, Pashtoon said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14684-2003Apr2?language=printer (520 words)

	The Lawless Frontier - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		The Baluch are identified by their grandiose white turbans, the Pashtoons from southern Afghanistan by smaller, darker ones, and the Pashtoons from northern Afghanistan by flat woolen caps called pakols.
		Ultimately, the Taliban are tribal Pashtoons from the southern and eastern Afghan borderlands -- an anarchic mountain people who have ground up one foreign invader after another, defying attempts by the Moguls, the Sikhs, the British, the Soviets, and the Pakistanis to control them.
		The Pashtoon population of Kurram is split between Sunnis and Shias.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/future/0222rk.htm (7949 words)

	USATODAY.com - Helicopter carrying workers from U.S. firm crashes in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The helicopter was about to leave when a man armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle attacked and then fled, said Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for governor of Kandahar province.
		Pashtoon said the village was home to the Hezb-e-Islami group of renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Taliban ally.
		Pashtoon complained that the local authorities had not been notified that the foreigners were visiting Sunday.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-22-afghan-chopper_x.htm (714 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Pashtoon said Kandahar had enjoyed a night of calm, saying its people had rejoiced at the Taliban’s demise.
		Naqibullah was not part of the Taliban but Pashtoon said he had welcomed former Taliban to his fold.
		Taliban leader Mullah Omar was captured on the night of Friday and is near Kandahar in the custody of warlord Khalid Pashtoon who is sympathetic to the militia.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011209/main2.htm (1318 words)

	Was Zoroaster a Pashtoon? Re: Loya Jirga, a Pashtoon Word Re:...
		His place of birth and origin(as you mention) being Pakhtra(Bactria) which is a province of Afghanistan; Pakht literally meaning Pashtoon.
		Zoroaster's Pashtoon origins can also be backed up by the fact that eastern Iranian(Pashto) is far older than western iranian(Farsi) to which it later gave way.
		Furthermore the 'sp' syllabal is Pashtoon and is absent in Farsi.
	www.arizonapersian.com /learnpersian/_disc3/00000b41.htm (294 words)

	kochees
		Over the last two centuries, the ethnic Pashtoon rulers intentionally created vague situation for the total as well as regional and ethnic figures of population for different ethnic groups for achieving political benefits for the Pashtoons and keeping away non-Pashtoon from sharing power.
		For this purpose the ethnic Pashtoon rulers brought all sources together for depicting other ethnic groups in Afghanistan as minority and to prolong Pashtoon domination in the country.
		As for as nomads of the DURANI Pashtoon sub branches of western Afghanistan, according to Fardinand, they have been permanently settled by the Kabul rulers and they have been so effected by the native culture that their language has converted from Pashto to Dari Farsi (11).
	www.hazara.net /takeAction/kochees/kochees.html (1291 words)

	:.Mera Mardan.: Mardan Online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(also called Pushtu, Pakhto, or Afghan), is spoken by 25 to 30 million people by the Pashtoon in Afghanistan and northern-western and western Pakistan and is divided into plenty of dialects, of which southern, western and northern groups are the widest.
		Its dialects fall into two main divisions: the southern, which preserves the ancient sh (as in "Pashto"), and the northern and eastern, which has kh (as in "Pakhto") sound.
		His grandson Afdal Khan was the author of a history of the Pashtoon.
	www.sitesled.com /members/meramardan/pashto.html (368 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD Fellows . AFGHANISTAN - Without Warlords . The Future \| PBS
		Pashtoon, 36, lives in De Mazang on the west side of Kabul, the only area to be nearly leveled during the civil war.
		The mother of four stood in the doorway of her house, relatively rebuilt compared with the crumbling mud-brick buildings surrounding us.
		Pashtoon, a housewife, chatted with me as a young Afghan man from a neighborhood micro-lending office filled out a form before handing her a small business loan for her husband.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/fellows/afghanistan/09.html (864 words)

	Hard working in hazarajat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the pashtoon Amir started to extend his influence from Kabul to Hazarajat by force.
		Pashtoon tribes were sent to the central highland to crush the revolt.
		As a result, Abdur Rahman killed thousands of hazaras insolvent men, but the women and children were taken as slaves, and pashtoon ethnic group occupied their land.
	www.hazarajat.com /Englishsite/hard_working_in_hazarajat.htm (393 words)

	Pak Pashtoon leader accuses Islamabad of interfering in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though all nationalities of Pakistan have their separate provinces, Pashtoons have been deprived of a separate province.
		Achakzai's statements carry significance as Pakistani senator Khalid Khan Kakar has also called for Pashtoons in Balochistan to be accorded equal share in political and fiscal powers, as otherwise, granting more autonomy to the province might be considered a conspiracy against the Pashtoons living there.
		Achakzai further called for a grand jirga of Pashtoons in Afghanistan to end Pakistani interference in the war torn country.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20061203/526240.html (267 words)

	Loya Jirga, a Pashtoon Word Re: some questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pashto was the language of one the Scythian tribes whose homeland is an important streach of land running North and East at Peshawar and the Oxus river to South and West at Kandahar and then again westward and north to Herat.
		Ancient Pashtoon religion was mainly an animistic one but did revolve around "Anahid", a mother goddess whose temple was built in the Afghan province of Bactria (Originally "Pakhtra").
		The Pashtoons today for the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and th Second largest ethnic group of Pakistan.
	arizonapersian.com /learnpersian/_disc3/00000b3c.htm (301 words)

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