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Topic: Pashtoon Kot


In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

  
  Marwat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was the daughter of Kaaghdoam who was a Karlanee Pashtoon.
However, in 1451 AD when the Delhi Sultanate was captured by Lodhis, then the trace of the Marwat is to be found in his reign.
These entire features are due to their pure and nice Afghan origin and probably this is the reason that they are very dignified and generous and meet the strangers with great courtesy, They are very generous towards their woman folk as compared to the other tribes of Pathans”.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marwat   (3641 words)

  
 Print Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On Monday night, Day 58, north of Kandahar, Hamid Karzai's Popalzai tribal fighters had captured the district of Shahwali Kot and the town of Arghandab, 12 miles northwest of Kandahar.
Also Monday night, Gul Agha's forces assaulted the center of Kandahar airport in the southeast, but were pushed back to the river banks, about a mile from the center of the airport.
AIP said U.S. warplanes had bombed the airport and targets in mountains south of Kandahar early on Tuesday, quoting a Taliban source as saying air strikes were coming in ``every five minutes.
www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/560123   (411 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The refugees have been given two choices either to move to Kot Chandna in Mianwali district or relocate in eastern Afghan province of Ningrahar, the relatively calm and Pashtoon-dominant area.
The refugees were told that apart from their return to Jalalabad or moving to Mianwali, no other option is under consideration therefore they will have to choose one of them.
The Afghan refugees said that most of them were Pashtoon and it was difficult for them to go back to Afghanistan because of the Northern Alliance and other security fears.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/May04/02/10.html   (472 words)

  
 Welcome to ::: Mashriq TV :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman of the Kandahar governor, said that 18 Taliban and three Afghan troops were killed.
Afghan officials say the Taliban are trying to regroup in southern and eastern Afghanistan, and there have been regular small-scale attacks on US and government positions recently.
Reliable sources informed The News from Angoor Adda, that all killed were belonged to the Wazir tribe of South Waziristan Agency and all of the slain were having dual citizenship of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
www.mashriq.tv /mashriq/newsdetail.asp?ID=460   (952 words)

  
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The proximity of the lower lying districts of Hisarak, Sherzad and Khogiani provide seasonal migrants with temporary employment opportunities during the spring harvest in April, whilst allowing them to return to their own land to harvest in May/June.
In Behsud, Bati Kot, Rodat and Shinwar it was possible to see women actively involved in collecting opium gum.
However, due to sensitivities associated with discussing the economic and social responsibilities of women in rural Afghanistan, and current restrictions on employing female local staff, it was not possible to clarify from either the men or the women working in the fields why women were not engaged in lancing.
www.unodc.org /pakistan/study1_98-06.html?print=yes   (6235 words)

  
 .:: Bannu Muslims History ::. Bannu.com
From the pedigree table of the Pashtoons, it reveals that Marwat tribe is a branch of the Lodhi tribe.
He erected a small fort (Qila Shah Kot) at Jando Khel and kept a few hundred soldiers with a kardar to deal with the collection of taxes from the Bannuchis.
He being a Pashtoon, the Bannuchi maliks accepted his demands with much more offers of Bannuchi men to be enrolled in his army.
www.bannu.com /bannumuslimshistory.php   (6026 words)

  
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The Pashtoon have codified the honour system in the Pashtoonwali, it revolves around four concepts: 'malmastya', the obligation to show hospitality; 'badal', revenge; 'nanawaty', asylum; and 'nang', honour.
In Kand Kot and its suburbs, the kari woman is dressed in red.
Henna is applied to her hands, then she is taken to the bank of the river where she is shot or slaughtered with an axe.
jerusalem.indymedia.org /news/2004/12/148663.php   (6671 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior....News Page
He said the Afghan authorities were relying on local intelligence to track Mullah Omar, and that, to his knowledge, no US forces were in Uruzgan to hunt for the reclusive, one-eyed Taliban leader.
Designated Judge S N Dhingra, before whom the application was made by the police requesting issuance of notice under Sections 82/83 of Criminal Procedure Code and pasting of the same at a "conspicuous place" in the court, posted the matter for further hearing on March 30.
The police in its application said Masood Azhar, who was an undertrial in Kot Balwal Jail at Jammu but released to save the lives of the passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999, along with Abu Jehadi and Ahmed had planned the terrorist attack on Parliament.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /02feb17/news.htm   (5328 words)

  
 Lakki Marwat History :: Khyber.ORG
It is said that he had gone to Mecca where the holy Prophet (PBUH) gave him the name of Abdur Rashid.
She was the daughter of Kaaghdoar who was a Karlanee Pashtoon.
Like other Pashtoons, Marwats are divided into numerous Khels.
www.khyber.org /pashtoplaces/lakkimarwat2.shtml   (3280 words)

  
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About 30 Taliban suspects were arrested in Shah Wali Kot district of Uruzgan province as hundreds of Afghan soldiers backed by U.S. soldiers searched the area for the bodies of the two civilians killed Tuesday night, police said.
He condemned the role of MMA and said they got vote from the Pashtoons and helped the rulers in usurping the rights of the smaller nations through 17 amendment and NSC.
He said due to sacrifices of the Pashtoon they have reached near to the destination, soon they would reap the fruit of their struggle.
www.sabawoon.com /news/printall.asp?pDate=4/14/2004   (11367 words)

  
 US Targeting of Vehicles is Detailed
Yusuf Pashtoon, a top aide to Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Shirzai, said he was unaware of the effort to destroy all trucks and tankers during that time.
Adbul Salam said he was driving a small bus carrying four passengers near the village of Shahwali Kot on Dec. 4 when a bomb landed only 15 feet from his vehicle.
Karzai's troops, aided by US special forces, were preparing to defend the village and then mount an offensive on Kandahar.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0219-02.htm   (1294 words)

  
 HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He did not consult the elders or anyone else," said Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai.
CNN also cited reports of widespread looting of civilian property and relief agency warehouses as the city changed hands.
The whereabouts of Omar, who had until this week urged his fl-turbaned warriors to fight to the death rather than give up the bomb-blasted southern city, were not known, but the unrepentant Taliban leader must face justice, Karzai said.
www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0112/09/eng3.htm   (618 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Afghanistan
In the upper Darrai Nur there are ten villages (including Bamba Kot, Lamatek, and Sutan) which form a single people group with their own dialect.
Residents of the lower Darrai Nur (Nur River) are a separate and perhaps not ethnically organized people.
The people are called 'Pahtoon' in the north and 'Pashtoon' in the south.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Afgh.html   (2355 words)

  
 New Pakistani Movie Laaj about Fakir of Ippi [Archive] - Chai Khaana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is nothing but an attempt to hijack the character of Faqir of Ipi and project him as somone else.
Ask a pashtoon who was Faqir of Ipi.
With this movie out, then ask a pashtoon who is Faqir of Ipi.....
www.pashto.org /chaikhaana/archive/index.php/t-369.html   (2184 words)

  
 The Namibian | World News | Taliban abandon Kandahar, Omar "disappears"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said the surrender was completed on Friday with forces laying down arms to a joint commission of tribal elders.
"For the higher-ranking Taliban, if there is a case against them they must face trial," he told Reuters by satellite telephone from Shahwali Kot, north of Kandahar.
Karzai said on Thursday he was granting an amnesty to rank and file Taliban, but insisted Omar must denounce terrorism and cut all ties with bin Laden's mainly Arab al Qaeda network.
www.namibian.com.na /2001/December/world/012E8D5B95.html   (963 words)

  
 Talibans regaining control over afghansitan - Afghan Forums
It was not immediately clear why there was a discrepancy in the numbers, which were impossible to confirm independently because the scene of the fighting was remote and insecure.
The fighting erupted after militants hiding in a mountain compound in a small village in Tirin Kot district fired small-arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at a joint Afghan-coalition patrol late on Tuesday, according to two separate US military statements.
He will be sitting right in front of his TV in Canada and seeing their Taliban cousins friends.
www.afghanforums.com /showthread.php?t=4412   (3095 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior....News Page
He did not consult the elders or anyone else," said Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for former Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Aherzai.
But the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said the surrender was completed today with forces laying down arms to a joint commission of tribal elders.
Karzai yesterday said he was granting an amnesty to rank and file Taliban, but insisted Omar must denounce terrorism and cut all ties with bin Laden’s mainly Arab Al Qaeda network.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01dec08/news.htm   (6244 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes
A worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross, he was on his way north, trying to bring water to the town of Tirin Kot.
You looked to the right, and it was coming from the left." Munguia, 39, had arrived in Afghanistan in November to work on improving the water system in Kandahar and Tirin Kot.
He is a fugitive, said Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for the Kandahar governor.
www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=13871&archive=true   (1147 words)

  
 Table of Contents
Women and children are actively involved in agricultural activities at each stage of production, from sowing to harvesting.
In Pashtoon areas the involvement of females and children in the agriculture sector is minimal.
Contrary to Pashtoon area, female and child labour involvement in the agriculture and horticulture sectors is significant.
www.un.org.pk /profiles/mastung.htm   (9018 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - world/asia1pacific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He did not consult the elders or anyone else," said Khalid Pashtoon, spokesperson for former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai.
However, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said the surrender was completed today with forces laying down arms to a joint commission of tribal elders.
"For the higher-ranking Taliban, if there is a case against them they must face trial," he said from Shahwali Kot, north of Kandahar.
www.sabcnews.com /world/asia1pacific/0,2172,24818,00.html   (427 words)

  
 The National Congress of Afghanistanکنـــگــرهء ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A: I do not see …….any problem in it because when you call Afghans the citizen of Afghanistan you can them Afghani or Afghanistani and I think these terms are interchangeable.
Militants have killed the head of a district administration and three police officers in two attacks in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
The head of Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province, Ayatullah Popal, and two security officers are said to have died in a bomb attack.
ncafg.com /news/news4-12.htm   (7916 words)

  
 ÑæÒäÇãå ÇÓáÇã - Islaam News
Herat (Islaam News):At least 12 persons were killed and several other injured during clashes between Pashtoon and Tajik forces in Shendand area of Herat province.
Local warlord of Herat, Haji Hazrat said that the clash occured upon the directives of the Tajik governor Ismaeel Khan.
Lahore (ANN): Maulana Azam Tariq suffered some kind of stroke in the Kot Lakhpat jail, he was transferred to the jail hospital where the doctors recommended that he should be taken to Lahore for medical treatment.
dailyislaam.pitas.com /march_sept2002.html   (7364 words)

  
 Jehad and ethnic oppression (Interview with Abdul Majed Kanjoo, Seraiki National Party Chief)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Under the aegis of Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM), Seraikis, Sindhis, Baluchs and Pashtoons have been struggling for a new constitution of Pakistan according to 1940 resolution so that they get their fundamental rights, deprived to them since the Constituent Assembly was held in 1970.
Now, the people of Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahimyar Khan, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Kot Adu, Khanewal, Kabirwala, Jhang, Sargodha and Rajanpur, speaking a distinct language called Saraiki, are also agitating for a separate state called Seraikistan.
In an exclusive interview Seraiki National Party (SNP) chief Abdul Majed Kanjoo said: “Pakistan is being run without any constitution and negates democratic and human values.
www.hvk.org /articles/0805/173.html   (1006 words)

  
 NucNews - February 13, 2002
Interviews with a dozen villagers in this farming hamlet just outside the provincial capital of Tarin Kot paint a consistent picture of 30 chaotic minutes on the night of Oct. 21, when U.S. airplanes hit their intended targets with extraordinary precision.
As several rescuers were debating whether to take victims into Tarin Kot for medical treatment, Jan said, he saw two planes approaching over his apple orchard.
The planes unleased a pair of rockets, according to the witnesses, and the guest room housing many of the survivors collapsed in a massive pile of rocks, mud walls and rubble.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2002nn/0202nn/020213nn.htm   (20902 words)

  
 Kalabagh dam: Flood regulation risk - 5  (Engr Iftikhar Ahmad)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
However, there are certain disadvantages inherent in the hydel power systems because of their dependency on the waters to flow through the turbines.
>From the above table, it can be observed that; the top three stations in terms of installed capacity are Tarbela, Pipri and Kot Addu, whereas the top three in terms of power output are Tarbela, Mangla and Pipri Power Station.
Further the cost-wise, lowest are Mangla, Tarbela and Guddu (5-10), whereas cost-wise most expensive unit is Kot Addu Thermal Station.
www.khyberwatch.com /kalabagh/iftikhar5.htm   (3437 words)

  
 World Affairs Board - Govt pushing Baloch towards liberation
We went to their huts and jhuggis, where kids of Pashtoon and Baloch tribesmen were playing around.
Gas pipeline from Dhodhak plant was blasted, stopping supply to DGK, Kot Addu, and Taunsa and suspending the functioning of the Kapco power plant.
While recourse to violence is condemnable, what remains a fact of every day life is that when no peaceful way is left open to redress grievances, people often tend to take resort to violent methods.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=4463&pp=50   (15389 words)

  
 Pakistan: Violence against women in the name of honour
In April 1998, a young man in the Punjab village Chak No. 65, axed his mother, Ghulam Bibi, to death after she was traced by her family and brought back home following her supposed elopement with a man.
In Kot Addu, near Multan, Naziran, a mother of six was axed to death by her brother on suspicion of an illicit relationship in November 1997.
On 29 April 1999, Shama Bibi, 16, wife of Saif Khan, living in Kahuta, Punjab, was shot by her husband on suspicion of her having an illicit relationship.
www.amnestyusa.org /regions/asia/document.do?id=1DF2FA05A016701B8025690000693498   (19949 words)

  
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There were no casualties in the attack, which occurred late Thursday near Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province, U.S. military spokesman Col. Roger King said.
General warns of unwinnable guerrilla war 3/22/02 Telegraph, UK British forces caught in attack by Taliban 3/21/02 Independent, UK Marines to face guerrilla war as Taleban fighters change tactics 3/21/02 Times, UK: "US troops at Khost airfield were attacked early yesterday by al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters armed with rocketpropelled grenades, mortars and machineguns.
The airfield is only 45 miles east of the Shah-i Kot valley in Paktia province, where a US-led force has just completed Operation Anaconda after 17 days of fighting.
www.afrocubaweb.com /news/afghangenocidearch02.htm   (13599 words)

  
 DAWN WIRE SERVICE : 24 August 2002 Issue : 08/34
He insisted that Osama, if he had survived the US-led coalition offensive in Tora Bora in December and the Shahi Kot Valley in March, would have trouble hiding in Pakistan.
The EC said the GDA was required to delete the names of Pakistan Qaumi Pashtoon Tehreek and Jamaat-i-Islami (Modoodi Group) as those parties had not submitted their documents to the Election Commission.
Pakistan Humwattan Party, Mohajir Ittehad Tehreek, Markazi Jamaat Ahle Hadis Pakistan, Balochistan National Party (Awami), Pakistan Muslim League (J) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (Noorani) were not allotted separate symbols as their being part of the Grand Democratic Alliance and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.
www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/2002/aug242002.html   (18522 words)

  
 APNA DISCUSSION FORUM - OLD POSTINGS
Simply, I mean here, I learnt there Pushto, the language of the masses and area.
In this way, feudal controlled both practical and speculative aspects of Punjabi life.
Ghulam Mustafa Khar comes from Kot Addu, distt.
www.apnaorg.com /guestbook/guestbooko1.html   (16235 words)

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