Sentence examples for fellow pashtun from inspiring English sources

Jan Mohammad Khan was an adviser to Karzai on tribal issues and was close to the president, a fellow Pashtun.

Both times, the orders were undone by ethnic politics, U.N. officials said, as Karzai countermanded the Tajik NDS chief to protect his fellow Pashtun tribesman.

President Hamid Karzai, a fellow Pashtun tribesman whom the king supported as Afghanistan moved toward democracy, announced the death on national TV.

About half the seats in Parliament are expected to go to ethnic Pashtuns, who will broadly support their fellow Pashtun, Mr. Karzai.

Today Hajji Zaman and 23 fellow Pashtun commanders of past battles for Afghanistan met in Peshawar to decide on a course of action.

Perhaps it underscored their ambivalence toward Mullah Omar, their fellow Pashtun, who is still believed to command respect in the Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan.

Even his fellow Pashtuns will be underrepresented because so many Pashtun candidates have been thrown out.

The Taliban were at first more subtle with their fellow Pashtuns.

He said that early results suggested the president did very well in Kandahar Province, Mr. Karzai's home province, where he has strong support among his fellow Pashtuns.

Most of the Pashtun delegates were pro-monarchist, though the king's 40-year-rule is remembered even by fellow Pashtuns as weak and ineffective.

But Mr. Karzai might find that handing Mullah Omar over to the Americans is a politically unpopular step, particularly among his fellow Pashtuns.