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Meanings of Pashtun in anglès

A member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan.

Usage of Pashtun in anglès
1
The area is awash with weapons and inhabited by ethnic Pashtun tribes.
Reuters
2
It traditionally involves ethnic Pashtun tribal elders -Afghanistan's largest ethnic group.
Reuters
3
Bajaur is one of the Pashtun tribal regions near the Afghan border.
Reuters
4
Local Pashtun tribesmen retaliate with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers, attacking the army.
Reuters
5
But as a Pashtun, I know that justice will eventually be served.
The apostle
6
They were routed in February polls by secular and Pashtun nationalist parties.
Reuters
7
The inhabitants were all Pashtun and all fiercely supportive of the Taliban.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
8
She is born in Pakistan, Mingora and is a Pashtun from birth.
The Guardian
9
Orakzai is one of Pakistan's seven Pashtun tribal lands in the northwest.
Reuters
10
It was a small gesture, but from the Pashtun it was everything.
The book of spies
11
They preached for a reborn alliance of Islamic piety and Pashtun might.
Ghost wars
12
I also picked up Pashtun, Farsi, and Aramaic from servants and teachers.
Quantico
13
You look like a goddamn Pashtun and you smell like one too.
The good son: a novel
14
The tribesmen are said to include many from the same ethnic Pashtun group.
The Irish Times
15
Its fighter infiltrate into southern Afghanistan from a Pashtun-dominated region on the border.
Reuters
16
A secular ethnic Pashtun nationalist party was winning in North West Frontier Province.
Reuters
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