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- noun Plural form of
Nuristani .
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Examples
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He introduced Islam to Nuristanis, gave Afghanistan its present borders, and for the first time subdued its disparate tribes, bringing them under centralized rule.
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan Ann Jones 2010
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Its precipitous slopes and high valleys are so forbidding and remote that even Islam did not reach Nuristanis until the late nineteenth century, and they are to this day considered a unique people.
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan Ann Jones 2010
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The area was populated by Nuristanis, Kohistanis, and Pashtuns, all of whom harbored disdain for the Gujars, migrant farm workers from over the border, who, in their eyes, were “not real Afghans.”
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I want to help the most underserved people in the whole of Afghanistan, the Nuristanis.
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan Ann Jones 2010
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The area was populated by Nuristanis, Kohistanis, and Pashtuns, all of whom harbored disdain for the Gujars, migrant farm workers from over the border, who, in their eyes, were “not real Afghans.”
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"Mullah Sadiq has no guns, only his brains — and we need to support him quickly," warns Col. Shams Rahman, a Kamdesh native who commands the ABP's 7th Battalion that is made up almost exclusively of Nuristanis.
Afghan Rebels Discuss Peace as U.S. Pulls Back Yaroslav Trofimov 2010
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Their weather-beaten, half-toothless faces were garnished with a decorative assortment of beards, some with the flaming red hair that once made Western observers believe Nuristanis to be descendants of Alexander the Great.
November 11th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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Nuristanis -- who were converted from paganism to Islam only about 100 years ago -- live in isolated villages in terrain that is rugged even by Afghan standards.
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They became Nuristanis, "enlightened ones", and their rugged mountain land is one of the centres of the war against the Taliban.
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Nuristanis walk along an alpine track in the remote, mountainous Afghan province.
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