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  • The state derives its name from 'Gujar', an ancient clan that migrated from Central Asia in the first century BC.

    Zee News : India National 2009

  • Sultan Mehmood Gujar, 46, a property dealer by profession, is reported to be one of the many staunch supporters of the "holy war."

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • Sultan Mehmood Gujar, 46, a property dealer by profession, is reported to be one of the many staunch supporters of the "holy war."

    Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012

  • Gujar: "even if Obama wins Iowa and/or NH will it have any major impact on super Tuesday?"

    New Polls Show Hillary Ahead In New Hampshire, South Carolina ... And Iowa 2009

  • The Americans discovered that the businessman's father, a mujahedeen fighter against the Soviets two decades ago, had killed a Gujar leader, and the Gujar has neither forgiven nor forgotten.

    In Afghanistan, Getting to Know 2008

  • In Kamdesh, for example, one of the most violent districts in the squadron's turf, Lt.Col. Kolenda and his men noticed that whenever a certain businessman bid on a construction contract, a senior member of the Gujar tribe would object.

    In Afghanistan, Getting to Know 2008

  • Then, on the evening of the third day, his chief lieutenant and deputy, Vikram Mallah, who had admired Phoolan from afar over the years, shot Babu Gujar dead.

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

  • For the next seventy-two hours she was brutalized by Babu Gujar.

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

  • She had heard rumors, as had everyone in the village, that a gang of dacoits, led by a notoriously cruel man named Babu Gujar, was encamped on the riverbank; she may or may not have received a letter from the gang threatening to kidnap her or to cut off her nose — a not uncommon punishment inflicted on women for a perceived indiscretion in the villages of northern India.

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

  • Narayan, a gentle Gandhian, persuaded about forty skeptical gang leaders — including Mohar Singh, an upper-caste Gujar and a former wrestler, who led the largest of the gangs — and the even more skeptical authorities to give surrender and rehabilitation a try.

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

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