Pushtuns

And the Pushtuns, which is the tribal group on both sides of the border, have traditionally gone back and forth.

CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007 2007

Although the Pushtuns were the minority, they were the largest minority, and it was understood that the Pushtuns would take the lead.

StrategyPage.com 2009

As stated earlier, the Pushtuns were the pawns in the "Great Game" between the British and the Russian empires and the Tamils were sent (as indentured labourer) to Palm, rubber and tea plantations in Malaya and Ceylon.

Pak Tea House 2009

What is significant about this development was that this request was not only made by Zahir Shah's normally divisive fellow Pushtuns.

Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Needs A Hero: How A Unifying National Leader Can Bring Peace 2010

What is significant about this development was that this request was not only made by Zahir Shah's normally divisive fellow Pushtuns.

Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Needs A Hero: How A Unifying National Leader Can Bring Peace 2010

No more money for the Tajiks, the Hazaras and the Pushtuns.

War Bill PASSES Congress 2010

The goal would be to induce Pushtuns in the south and east to disengage from terrorists or violent opponents of the Afghan or Pakistani governments.

Richard A. Clarke: More Troops to Afghanistan? 2009

The Pushtuns must believe that backsliding would cost them financially and militarily.

Richard A. Clarke: More Troops to Afghanistan? 2009

They are also dominated by Tajiks and Uzbeks and they are fighting Pushtuns.

Don't escalate a failing war 2009

Alongside, the internecine struggle for power and purse between the newly emergent Punjabi petty bourgeois and the rest of the disunited ethnic minorities -- including the Sindhis, Baluchs and Pushtuns -- militates against the stability of the center, a situation that the Islamists, with the help of al-Qaida and the Taliban, are systematically taking advantage of.

Sunil Adam: Pakistan: Obama's Achilles' Heel 2009