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The qafilabashi worked with a munshi or secretary who was responsible for a register book known as a challan within which the amounts and kinds of commodities and their means of animal conveyance to Kabul were recorded and manipulated.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Times of India Pak police submit evidence against 26/11 suspects Pakistani police submitted to an anti-terrorism court the "challan" with evidence against five Lashker-e-Taiba operatives arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, on Tuesday.
India News Digest: Cognizant Pips Infosys, Wipro, TCS, HCL 2009
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Police submit the 'challan' (charge sheet) in an anti-terrorism court in Sargodha, charging the youths under the anti-terrorism act and Pakistan Penal Code for criminal conspiracy against the state and plotting attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Police submit the 'challan' (charge sheet) in an anti-terrorism court in Sargodha, charging the youths under the anti-terrorism act and Pakistan Penal Code for criminal conspiracy against the state and plotting attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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This tax is given to IT department using a form called 'challan'.
rediff.com 2009
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This is the second "challan" that the FIA has submitted in the court.
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In the first instance, the Khaibar routing was induced in Kabul at the chabutara or customs house where the goods destined for India were itemized in a challan register book.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Mullah Wais al-Din appointed a Peshawri munshi or secretary who physically handled the challan or register book that Rustam Ali was politically responsible for.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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It is unclear how the qafilabashi documented the nomads 'arati payments for the increasingly textually inclined Durrani state, but if other tax-payment practices serve as an interpretive guide, it is likely that the qafilabashi issued receipts to the nomads and that a munshi recorded those payments in a challan.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The challan was submitted to anti-terror judge Sakhi Muhammad Kahut, who is hearing the case related to the five LeT operatives in the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
India News Digest: Cognizant Pips Infosys, Wipro, TCS, HCL 2009
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