badal

That's unavoidable in a land where the code of revenge -- "badal" -- is sacred.

Eric Margolis: The Writing on the Wall in Kabul 2009

There are no 'badal', Hindi for clouds, looming over the government in Punjab - but the Badals definitely are.

India eNews 2009

Its sacred tenets include protecting women's purity (namus), the right to personal revenge (badal), the sanctity of the guest (melmastia) and sanctuary (nanawateh).

Scott Atran: To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East 2009

What else can we expect when a primary component of pashtunwali is badal, revenge.

Mullah Omar Calls for a Taliban Surge - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Pashtun social values include loyalty (wafa), honor (nang), and badal, the Pashto word for taking revenge.

Malou Innocent: What Obama Should Do in Pakistan 2009

“Badal”: in Sind (not to speak of other places) it was customary to hire a pauper “badal” to be hanged in stead of a rich man.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The gun culture is linked to the "twin pillars of Pakhtun tribal society," melmastia-hospitality and badal-revenge.

Pakhtoons living on a powder keg 2007

Tum jo pakad lo haath mera, duniyaa badal sakta hun main

Archive 2004-11-01 Chirayu 2004

Tum jo pakad lo haath mera, duniyaa badal sakta hun main

Lyrics: O mere dil ke chain Chirayu 2004

This precipitated a badal (vendetta) between Afghan clan factions in which the brother of the murdered prime minister, Dost Muhammad, drove Mahmud Shah out of Kabul.

c. Afghanistan 2001