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  • A number of Sethi families residentially congregated in a section of Peshawar now known as the mahalla Sethian. 4

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • This upper-floor storage space in one building of the "mahalla Sethian" or Sethi quarter of Peshawar was the resting spot for what remained of the Sethi merchant documents in 1996.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Hundreds still missing in mahalla; families beg for human rights help

    Egypt: Bloggers on the Frontline 2008

  • Although there was no mahalla-biyya, Jenny was content to settle for babousa - a deliciously sticky pastry made of semolina soaked in honey and topped with hazelnuts.

    From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

  • Locality determines whether one is a Hyderee or a Niametee, and a change of mahalla, quarter, or parish, produces a change of party.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • Young people from the Region were summoned to a meeting at Academic Lycee No. 2 attached to Karakalpakstan State University also attended by mahalla (urban district) leaders and officers of the police (and possibly also the National Security Service (NSS) secret police), the official government UzA news agency reported on 16

    Forum 18 News Service 2010

  • After being summoned to schools, the human rights defender said, the same parents were called in by the mahalla committees, and once again instructed to write a statement pledging to stop taking their children to religious meetings.

    Forum 18 News Service 2009

  • On 27 November the parents were summoned by the mahalla committee, where officials demanded that the pupil's mother promise in writing that she would not take her children to Christian meetings, which she refused to do, Forum 18 was told.

    Forum 18 News Service 2009

  • After being summoned to schools, the human rights defender said, the same parents were called in by the mahalla committees, and once again instructed to write a statement pledging to stop taking their children to religious meetings.

    Forum 18 News Service 2009

  • The article warns that imams, mahalla committees, and the management of schools must undertake

    Forum 18 News Service 2009

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