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unusual facts about Pashtun



1525 in poetry

Pir Roshan (died 1582/1585), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic

1582 in poetry

1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic

1899 in Afghanistan

In consequence of repeated outrages committed by the Waziris, and especially because of the murder of Col. E.H. le Marchant of the Hampshire Regiment, the Indian government orders the partial disarmament of the Peshawar division, and of all trans-border Pashtuns at the frontier, and the disarmament of all persons without licenses in all municipalities and cantonments within the division.

Abdali

The Abdalis (Durranis) are one of the largest Pashtun tribes of Afghanistan, western Pakistan and eastern Iran

Abdul Wali

Khan Abdul Wali Khan (1917–2006), Pashtun activist against the British Raj, senior politician in Pakistan and writer

Afghan presidential election, 2009

On election day, Abdul Hamid, a tribal elder from Paghman District – a mostly Pashtun district bordering Wardak province – was reported as insisting that 40 to 50% of eligible Paghman voters had not received voting cards, and therefore could not cast a ballot.

Afghan Transitional Administration

Because of this issue of Pashtun under representation, Yunus Qanuni, one of the important Northern Alliance leaders, told the opening session he would be resigning as minister of the important post of interior so Karzai could strengthen the national government by broadening its ethnic mix.

Afghanistani

Coined recently, the word Afghanistani is a wide-range title that reflects all citizens of Afghanistan with different races and backgrounds, rather than only referring to Pashtun people.

Ahmad Shah Durrani

He declared a jihad (Islamic holy war) against the Marathas, and warriors from various Pashtun tribes, as well as other tribes such as the Baloch, Tajiks, and Muslims from South Asia answered his call.

Alia Bano

Alia Bano is a British playwright of Pashtun origin.

Asfandyar Wali Khan

He is the grandson of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Bacha Khan; Abdul Ghaffar was the founder of the non-violent Pashtun political movement, Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") in undivided India and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Attock District

The Syed, Khattar, Awan, Shaikh, Gheba, Jat, Qanungoh Shaikhs, Paracha, Arains, Pashtun, Gakharss, Gujjars, Rajput, Mughal and Qureshi are the main tribes and clans of Attock district.

Bahlul Khan Lodi

Bahlul belonged to the Shahu Khel clan of the Lodi Pashtun tribe.

Bala Hissar, Peshawar

The name was given by the Pashtun King Timur Shah Durrani (1773–1793), who used the fort as the winter capital of the Afghan Durrani Empire, with the summer capital being in Kabul.

Bampur

Pashtun tribes are also present in the city, including the influential Barakzai who have adopted Balochi language.

Dawood Jabarkhyl

An ethnic Pashtun, Jabarkhyl grew up in the Surkh-Rōd District, Afghanistan, where he attended high school then went on to further his education in England.

Demographics of Iran

There are small groups using other Indo-European languages such as Pashtun and Armenian; the isolate Dravidian language Brahui in the south-east; and Georgian (a member of the Kartvelian language family), spoken only by those Iranian Georgians that live in Fereydan and Fereydunshahr.

Durand Line

At the same time, the United States is reviewing the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZ) Act in Washington, D.C., which is supposed to help the economic status of the Pashtun and Baloch tribes by providing jobs to a large number of the population on both sides of the Durand Line border.

Farid Khan

Sher Shah Suri, also known as Sher Khan, birth name Farid Khan, (1486–1545), an ethnic Pashtun emperor, founder of the Sur Empire in northern South Asia

First Mohmand Campaign

The Mohmands are a Pashtun tribe who inhabit the hilly country to the north-west of Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province of India, now Pakistan.

Girdi Kas, Nangarhar

80 families from Khugyani, 400 families from Shinwari, with a few others (120 families) from other Pashtun groups.

Gun politics in Pakistan

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the Pashtun residents laud performances of strength and toughness, carrying a Kalashnikov or other gun is a sign of honour and respect.

Hanif Baktash

Mohamad Hanif Baktash, an ethnic Pashtun of the Amarkhel tribe, was born on 9 May 1961 in Maidan Shar (30 km far from Kabul).

Hatef Mokhtar

Mokhtar was born on May 11, 1962 at Mazar-i-Sharif in the Balkh province of Afghanistan to a Pashtun family from the Durrani clan.

History of Bareilly

Originally, some 20,000 soldiers from various Pashtun Tribes ( Yusafzais, Ghoris, Lodis, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tanoli, Tarin, Kakar, Khattak, Afridi and Baqarzai ) were hired by Mughals to provide soldiers to the Mughal armies and this was appreciated by Aurangzeb Alamgir, an additional force of 25,000 men was given respected positions in Mughal Army.

In 1623 two Afghan brothers of the Barech tribe, Shah Alam and Husain Khan, settled in the region, bringing with them many other Pashtun settlers.

Iranian diaspora

There are an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers of Iranian languages (including 70 million in Iran as of 2006), the five major groups of Persians, Lurs, Pashtuns, Kurds and Baloch accounting for about 90% of this number.

Karkhano Market

The Karkhano market, located in Peshawar, Pakistan, established in 1985 has more than 4,500 shops, owned by Pashtun traders.

Kharshbun

Kharshbun and his brother Sharkhbun are the two sons of Sarban, the first son of the legendary Pashtun ancestor Qais Abdur Rashid.

Mullagori

The Tatara Hill, a tourist resort, separates the Mallagori from the Afridi and the Kabul River separates them from the Mohmand tribe.

Nankana massacre

Fearing more trouble, Mr King, Commissioner Lahore, handed over the keys of Nankana Sahib to Shiromani Committee and arrested Mahant Narayan Das and his Pashtun mercenaries and charged them with murder, but only Mahant Narayan das and some of the mercenaries were sentenced to death.Lala Lajpat Rai was active advisor of Mahant Narain Das & even defened him in the court.Finally Mahant was let off.After independence he was given protection by Government Of India.He was kept under

National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan

It is connected with powerful conservative families in the Pashtun region.

Pashtunistan

This includes non-Pashtun leaders such as Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Ismail Khan, Mohammed Fahim, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, Atta Muhammad Nur, Abdul Ali Mazari, Karim Khalili, Husn Banu Ghazanfar, Muhammad Yunus Nawandish, Abdul Karim Brahui, Jamaluddin Badr as well as most other ministers, governors and officials.

Pathans of Kashmir

The prime minister paid a tribute to the Pashtun community for its "role in the country's liberation struggle" and also to Pashtun nationalist leaders such as Bacha Khan.

Pir Roshan

Pir Roshan assembled Pashtun armies to fight against the Mughal emperor Akbar in response to Akbar's continuous military agitations, and to counter Akbar's Din-e Ilahi.

Qaen

In the 18th century, Qaen fell under the control of Pashtuns which is why some of locals, though they speak Persian, still claim descent from Pashtuns (rather than Persians).

Qazi Amin Waqad

An ethnic Mohmand Pashtun from Nangrahar Province, Qazi Amin attended a madrasah in Pakistan, before graduating at the Islamic Law Faculty of Kabul University.

Qutb Shahi Tombs

The tombs are domed structures built on a square base surrounded by pointed arches, a distinctive style that blends Persian, Pashtun and Hindu forms.

Shahjahanpur, Meerut

The village is named after the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, and was said to have been founded by Mohammed Abbas Khan, a Dilazak Pashtun.

Syed Ahmad Barelvi

Syed Ahmad was influenced by Shah Abdul Aziz, son of Shah Waliullah and toured Afghanistan and the areas occupied by the Sikhs raising the banner of jihad and rallying the Pashtun tribes to his banner.

Tadkeshwar

Two of the more famous saints are Hazrat Maulana Nizamuddin Bajouri, an Afghan Pashtun from Bajour, who lived and died in Tadkeshwar in the 19th century; and his disciple Hazrat Shaikh Moosaji Mehtar.


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