Pushtun

How To Use Pushtun In A Sentence

• Since Kashmir was (and is) a Muslim majority territory, Pakistan felt justified in seeing Pushtun warlords charge in from the north-west of Pakistan, late in 1947, to seize control of Kashmir.
• Even then, the most elevated Pushtun elder dares not condescend to another man of his tribe.
• Since Kashmir was (and is) a Muslim majority territory, Pakistan felt justified in seeing Pushtun warlords charge in from the north-west of Pakistan, late in 1947, to seize control of Kashmir.
• Pakistan, with 170m people and nuclear weapons, is vulnerable to the Taliban's potent mixture of ethnic-Pushtun nationalism and extremist Islam (see article).
• The Pushtun tradition also includes the convening of the tribal council also known as jirga to resolve major issues.
• He may be half-Pushtun and half-Tajik, but as a prominent member of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, he is seen by Pushtuns as a Tajik, and by Pakistan as a stooge of India.
• Taliban insurgency is spreading in its north-west frontier region, fuelled partly by a similar Pushtun uprising against NATO and American troops in Afghanistan (see article).