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Pravda.RU Dmitry Litvinovich: Pashtun tribe will not support Taliban Pashtun is the ethnic title of the Afghan people living on the territory of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hamid Karzai is one of the leaders of a tribe consisting of 500 thousand people; he has a significant authority among the Pashtun tribes. The ruling Afghan movement was planning to use the Pashtun tribes when the ground operation starts, which is 60% of the country’s population. english.pravda.ru /main/2001/11/09/20515.html   (1961 words)

Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel (In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data He visits the Mizo people of northeast India a people who improbably but passionately claim to be descendants of the ancient Israelite tribe of Manasseh, one of the 10 tribes of northern Israel who were exiled by the Assyrians around 720 B.C. and then lost to history. Ultimately, however, his claim to have "proved" that the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people of northeast India and Burma are linked to the ancient Israelites does not ring true. The Mizo people believe that they are Jews and want to get back to their true roots. www.travelpromote.us /books-reviewed/0618029982.html   (1961 words)

Pashtuns of Afghanistan The PATHAN (Pashtun) people form the dominant ethnic and linguistic community, accounting for just over half the population. From that time Until mid-1991 the various factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, all dominated by Pashtuns, controlled the country's government. By the mid-1990s many of the refugees returned restoring the Pashtuns to their status of the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan constituting about 45% of the population. www.afghan-network.net /Ethnic-Groups/pashtuns.html   (573 words)

cars - Talk:Jew Speaking of the Pashtun, because their definition is almost entirely patrilineal, even granting the "lost tribe" premise and then using a strict Halakhic accounting that says the only way you cease to be a Jew is excommunication, there would be no reason to think that any particular Pushtun traced back matrilineally to the lost tribes. The Marranos of Spain, for example, like the (possibly) Pashtun, maintain some Jewish traditions after being forced to convert over 500 years ago, but they are not considered Jews. This article should clearly mention that, people who might have jewish descent but are affiliated with religions other then judism, are not discussed in this article or this article may get POV banner. www.carluvers.com /cars/Talk:Jew   (573 words)

Afghania Portal :: View topic - History in Deep Pashtuns have been in Afghanistan probably around or not considerably long after 11,000BC until now (just like Sumeria and Egypt, Greece and Italy were made up of bulk Mediteranean people first). But ofcourse you seem to think Pashtuns are Jews who were suplanted to Aryana by the Persians after the Captivity, who maybe changed their language to Persian slowly from Semitic or quickly around 800BC (which the the time of exiles). I mentioned this in my first thread about Pashtuns, Tajiks and Uzbeks all claiming they were jews (just like maybe French American, Italian Americans and German Americans are claiming they are jews). www.afghania.com /PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-438-sid-ca5c7f60a8ce8a4f5e25101c2d406be0.html   (573 words)

Jewish Defense League Of Florida/Jewish Idea Forum PAKI is an acronym standing for Pashtun, Arab, Kasmiri and Iranian. Whereas many Cherokee people know themselves to be a remnant of the ancient Israelites, The Tennessee River Band of Chickamaugan Cherokee proudly proclaims it's solidarity with The Jewish people it religious and secular authority. www.network54.com /Forum/viewall?forumid=20188&it=16   (573 words)

Layne Redmond--The Peacemaker of the Pashtun Past Ghaffar's friend and mentor, Mohandas Gandhi, called his feat "a miracle." Nevertheless, the most remarkable Pashtun of his era is forgotten, not only because his cause was lost < he sought self- rule for his people within a united, secular India < but because it was an embarrassment to Britain, India and Pakistan alike. The Pashtuns number upwards of 20 million, and their squat stony villages straddle the Durand Line that nominally demarcates Pakistan from Afghanistan, where Pashtuns form the largest ethnic group. British officers were so impressed by Pashtun valor that in 1847 they created a Pashtun force, the Corps of Guides its emblem was crossed sabers over the slogan "Rough and Ready" that was soon celebrated in the Indian Army. www.layneredmond.com /sharbat3.htm   (857 words)

Out of Sparta-The face of the Pashtuns (This is what we are up against in Afghanistan) Not since the ancient Spartans has the world seen a people more fitted for war than the Pashtuns. Pashtun men emerge from their childhood hardened to the strains of their harsh physical environment and "prepared for a life of struggle, betrayal, and cruelty." Lindholm quotes a popular proverb: "The eye of the dove is lovely my son, but the sky is made for the hawk. Although the Pashtun are powerfully constrained by kinship and custom, in an important sense, a Pashtun boy is raised in a state of nature — forced to learn toughness, and self-reliance in a world self-consciously understood as violent, deceitful, and cruel. www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3be6db0807ff.htm   (3831 words)

0522JACINTO - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Ideas - News ''I believe as a woman from Pashtun society, this is my responsibility to my culture, my language, my people." At a time when Pashtun culture is associated abroad with the Taliban, terrorism, and jihad, a quiet cultural renaissance is slowly taking root in the still troubled southeastern provinces of Afghanistan. If the image of fierce Pashtun men composing love poems may seem incongruous, the idea of a Pashtun woman writing about war, exile, love, and sex in verse is extraordinary. www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/05/22/the_tale_of_the_pashtun_poetess   (534 words)

CNN.com - Pashtun leader seeks to replace Afghan provincial governor - February 4, 2002 Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. The fighting between shura forces and Khan's fighters erupted against a backdrop of Pashtun tribes trying to regroup throughout Afghanistan -- and the interim administration's attempts to foster civil stability to avoid the type of tribal infighting that led to the ousted Taliban's rise to power. Gardez was the scene of fighting last week between shura forces and a rival Pashtun militia headed by Khan. archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/04/afghanistan.gardez   (374 words)

"); NewWindow.document.write("IRINnews"); NewWindow.document.write(" "It's wrong to assume that all Pashtuns are Taliban - the atrocities in the north are committed against ordinary people," he said. Pashtuns are the overall-majority ethnic group in Afghanistan, but they are a minority in the north. In a press statement on Sunday, HRW said armed political factions of Hazara, Uzbek and Tajik ethnicities in northern Afghanistan were subjecting ethnic Pashtuns to murder, beatings, sexual violence and intimidation, forcing them to abandon villages to seek asylum and refuge elsewhere. www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=23539&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN   (700 words)

My Forbidden Face: Pashtun The Pashtun account for about a third of Afghanistan's estimated population of 26 million people and predominate in the south, on either side of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Pashtun have their own tribal laws and often consider themselves Pashtun first, and Pakistani or Afghan second. Historically, Afghanistan's rulers have been drawn from this ethnic group; almost all the Taliban leaders are Pashtun, as is the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah.]" --p. www.stolaf.edu /people/schwartl/latifaweb/Pashtun.html   (92 words)

Iranica.com - GANDAÚPUÚR 279) considers the Ganda@pu@r as a people who live "among the Afghans [Pashtuns], but not being of them," an assertion rejected by ˆe@r-Moháammad Khan (pp. Popular Pashtun genealogical accounts relate that Ta@r^, the putative ancestor of the Ganda@pu@r, a grandson of G^su@-dara@z by one of his ˆe@ra@n^ Pashtun wives, violated the local tradition by marrying a girl without her father's permission and against the wishes of his own father. G^su@-dara@z, however, left without his Pashtun wives and children, who were raised by their maternal grandfathers. www.iranica.com /articles/v10f3/v10f355.html   (584 words)

Pashtun One aspect of the Pashtun culture that is unique is that a large number of citizens are attracted to military service. Today most of the Pashtun are farmers, herdsmen, and warriors. These people constitute the majority of the population of Afghanistan and possess the exclusive name of Afghan before that name came to denote any native of the present land area of Afghanistan. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/pashtun.html   (232 words)

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY This landlocked, ruggedly mountainous nation of 25 million people is more than 40 percent Pashtun, a quarter Tajik, one-fifth Hazara, and 8 percent Uzbek. Nearly every problem a Pashtun might face -- a murder, a runaway wife, a quarrel over inheritance or other property -- can be resolved by a local jirga, or tribal council, referring to centuries-old knowledge and wisdom. Rossul Amin of the University of Peshawar in neighboring Pakistan explains the subtle importance of this code of values and conduct on Pashtuns. www.rferl.org /nca/features/2001/11/20112001095314.asp   (1045 words)

ipedia.com: Hebrew Article The word Hebrew can variously mean: The Hebrew language or Hebrew languages The Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew calendar Pertaining to Jews or Judaism The ancient Hebrew people An Israelite, Jew, Pashtun,... If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. www.ipedia.com /hebrew.html   (179 words)

Ethnic groups (from Afghanistan) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! The Durrani Pashtun, who have formed the traditional nucleus of Afghanistan's social and political elite, live in the area around the city of Kandahar itself, which is located in a fertile oasis near the Arghandab River, and the Ghilzay inhabit the region between Kabul and Kandahar. In addition, there are a small number of Balochi (Baluchi) and Brahui people in the region. An estimated 60,000 people died by violence in Algeria between 1992 and 1997. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-21424   (1372 words)

Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whether or not the Pashtuns are in fact derived from one ethnic group is unknown, as no comprehensive study of them as a whole group has ever been completed. After giving details of the character of the wandering Israelites, he said: "And we find that the very natural character of Israel reappear in all its life and reality in countries where people call themselves Bani Israel and universally claim to be the descendants of the Lost Tribes. References advocating the theory of Pashtun descent from the Israelites: en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theory_of_Pashtun_descent_from_Israelites   (1372 words)

Leave a message! :: Mandeville, LA Virtually all the people interviewed distinguish the labels along what are essentially racial lines—Nazi is cultural, mainly linguistic, and perhaps suggests actual descent from the natives of Europe; Aryan is Racist and mainly Bigot—racial.The Post also quotes another Aryan (excuse me, Nazi), Duard Bradshaw, the Panamanian president of the Nazi National Bar Association. The rise of Christianity led to the suppression of pederasty, as it was one of the mainstays of a classical pagan culture which the church fathers saw as an obstacle to their proselytizing. With the ascension of King George II to the Aryan throne, this wacky and dangerous theory has become U.S. policy — and its first application is in the Nazi Germany, where the President and his neo-nazi advisors are determined to carve out the first overseas provinces of an Empire ruled directly from Washington. www.thedailydig.sphosting.com /wwwboard/795.html   (1372 words)

Afghanastan Government News Board - Terrorists and Taliban hijacked American planes to the NYC WTC One could go on and on, but the point being people should be getting their priorities right. Not a nice prospect, that's quite apart from asteriod impact, gigantic basalt eruptions (which is one theory as to why the dinsonaurs may have died out), a switching off of the earth's oceanic conveyer, which may as one example, plunge Europe into an early ice-age. One of the narratives tells of an Israelite by the name of Issa, "blessed by God and the best of all," who was put to death by Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea. skyjacked.com /wtcarc0228.htm   (1372 words)

NucNews - June 6, 2002 As a result some Pashtuns, who are the country's largest ethnic group, are growing suspicious that General Fahim is turning the new army into a Tajik-dominated force. The FBI director also repeated his long-held position that authorities have not settled on a single theory about last fall's anthrax mailings, which killed five people and made 13 others ill. He said that investigators are awaiting the results of numerous scientific tests. The colonel, who is a Tajik himself, at first said the unit had 90 Pashtuns, 90 Uzbeks, 60 Tajiks, 60 Hazara and roughly 270 soldiers described as members of smaller minority groups. nucnews.net /nucnews/2002nn/0206nn/020606nn.htm   (1372 words)

Online NewsHour: Afghanistan's Future - November 30, 2001 But generally, what most people want who are not part of the alliance is more representation for themselves, and especially for the Pashtun in southern Afghanistan, who are either backing the Taliban still -- because after all, the war continues-- or who are actually fighting them. MARGARET WARNER: Now, there was a report today that one of the leading Pashtun delegates, leading delegates from the Pashtun tribe, walked out or didn't show up to protest that there weren't enough Pashtuns. The Northern Alliance itself is a very loose coalition of forces, and I think these younger people understand that unless they do a deal here, they risk splitting apart. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec01/bonn_11-30.html   (1372 words)

AFGHANISTAN While the US maintains an opportunistic military relationship with Pacha Khan and other anti-Karzai Pashtun warlords, Washington clearly fears that they may politically challenge Karzai's tenuous claim to be the representative of the Pashtun people. In the regions controlled by Dostum and Ismail Khan, sustained and severe repression was directed at the Pashtun minority in an effort to reduce the overall Pashtun representation. The Pashtun ministers brought into the government are all close Karzai allies. www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/498/498p14.htm   (1372 words)

Gandhi's Associates: Khan Abdul Gafar Khan For almost 80 long years, the Pashtun leader struggled incessantly for the rights of his people without ever raising arms. Aware of the pervasive violence in his society, Ghaffar Khan decided to invoke people on religious and humanistic grounds. The Khudai Khidmatgar movement espoused nonviolent, nationalist agitation in support of Indian independence and sought to awaken the Pashtuns' political consensus. www.mkgandhi.org /associates/gafarkhan.htm   (1372 words)

Paying for the Taliban's Crimes: Haji Abdul Hameed, a Pashtun elder from Badghis province, told a journalist: "They took our people to prison. A spokesperson for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees confirmed that residents of Farkhar province are among new refugees arriving in Pakistan, and that a significant number of the new refugees claim to be fleeing attacks against Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan. On March 21, 2002, a group of some sixty Pashtun elders from Herat and Badghis provinces traveled to Kandahar province to appeal for international help to stop abuses against Pashtun communities there. www.hrw.org /reports/2002/afghan2/afghan0402-09.htm   (1004 words)

Bleak prospects for human rights They cannot still openly deny it because our people want it," says Khattak, an ethnic Pashtun who has suffered at the hands of military rulers for speaking for human rights and for demanding the people's right to political participation. The result of the increased awareness about democracy, which Pakistani Generals have been denying their people, is that Musharraf has had to promise it whenever he speaks to the people, to the media and at his referendum rallies. Not many people, in particular the government and the country's Islamic radicals, take in the right spirit what the HRCP has to say about democracy and human rights. www.flonnet.com /fl1910/19100510.htm   (1346 words)

WAPHA-Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan Small Pashtun parties on the Pakistan side of the border, such as the Pashtun National People's Party, call for the creation of a Pashtun homeland. Throughout the post-Independence period, Afghan-Pakistani friction over the Pashtunistan issue precipitated occasional war rhetoric, troop movements along their boundary, long periods of closed border crossing points, and severing of trade relations. Pakistan's concerns about the Pashtunistan issue therefore contribute to Islamabad's resistance to a broad-based Afghan settlement process as well as Pakistani favouritism for the Afghan radical Muslim factions. www.wapha.org /journal.html   (1744 words)

Pushtu language - free-definition Pushtu (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. It is spoken by circa 36% of Afghanistan population who are of the Pashtun tribe, as well as by ethnic Pashtuns who live on the other side of the disputed Durand Line in present day Pakistan. The northern dialect is spoken by about 9,685,000 people, and the southern dialect by about 8,206,000 people. www.free-definition.com /Pashto.html   (1744 words)

GupShup - Pathan guppies My own people are Hindko speaking but of Pashtun descent and all our Pashtun descended tribes call themselves Pathan to differentiate from other Hindko speaking tribes but I don’t agree with that, you can’t affiliate yourself to an ethnicity and not know the language well. I agree with everything else you said except the bit about Afghan’s in NWFP, the Pathan’s in NWFP are pretty much still true to their culture and language, it's the Pashtun descended people in parts of Punjab (Attock etc.) and Kashmir who over the course of time have gradually lost their culture and language. www.gupistan.com /gs/showthread.php?p=3244494   (1648 words)

Background of Hazara Community Trade by Hazara has largely been limited to peddling by people who travel, trade within Hazarajat has been dominated by Pashtun nomads. Hazarajat was opened up to Pashtun nomadism, and while highland pasture is not a scarce resource, the flocks coming through then arrow valleys cause destruction. In Hazarajat the situation was particularly bad, due both to government priorities and the fact that poor people need their children's labor. boozers.fortunecity.com /jerusalem/47/Background/background.html   (4949 words)

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