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- adjective Alternative form of
Pashtun . - noun Alternative form of
Pashtun . - proper noun Alternative form of
Pashtun .
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Examples
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Half of Afghanistan identifies as Pushtun as well as nearly all members of the Taliban.
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The "Pushtun" Taliban have tribal interests "Arab" (foreign) al-Qaida ideologues don't share.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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Now is the time to offer instead small-scale grassroots help to Afghan women's groups, impoverished farmers and the Pushtun patriots thrown by our policy into the hands of the Taliban.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Petition The President: End Afghan War Now! Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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This becomes more obvious when we can recall that whenever the press or bloggers like Matt say “Taliban”, they ought to be saying “Pushtun”.
Matthew Yglesias » America Needs More Realistic Aspirations in Afghanistan 2009
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Now is the time to offer instead small-scale grassroots help to Afghan women's groups, impoverished farmers and the Pushtun patriots thrown by our policy into the hands of the Taliban.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Petition The President: End Afghan War Now! Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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I can see it now (through Pushtun translator) "You got 10 seconds to come out and surrender or we're sickking the bear on you!"
Muslim Insurgents Mauled to Death by Bear After Hiding Out in Its Den 2009
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It might be better to have a Pushtun state and a Hazzara state and a Turkoman state rather than to try to encourage a stable national government in Kabul.
I hate the military! 2009
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I can see it now (through Pushtun translator) "You got 10 seconds to come out and surrender or we're sickking the bear on you!"
Muslim Insurgents Mauled to Death by Bear After Hiding Out in Its Den 2009
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It might be better to have a Pushtun state and a Hazzara state and a Turkoman state rather than to try to encourage a stable national government in Kabul.
I hate the military! 2009
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Mr. Blackwell argues that since the present battle plan is not going to weaken the Taliban, and the Pushtun support for the US in the south is unwinnable, a "partition of Afghanistan is the best policy option available to the United States and its allies".
Ehsan Azari Stanizai: Partition of Afghanistan Is a Quixotic Adventure 2010
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