Sentence examples for group of pashtun from inspiring English sources
In Bala Murghab, a village in northwestern Afghanistan, a group of Pashtun men recently gathered in the bazaar after arriving home from the fighting.
It is also the home base for Jalaluddin Haqqani, an Afghan jihadi leader whose group of Pashtun fighters is a linchpin in the alliance among Afghanistan's Islamists, Al Qaeda, and, despite its denials, Pakistan's intelligence service.
A group of Pashtun elders who had gathered at the home of a local senator last weekend discussed the province's security problems as they sat in a traditional open-air tent, eating green melon in the heat of the afternoon.
Pakistan: It would be madness to recklessly take on another armed group of Pashtuns, setting the frontier alight, when we haven't got the means to cope with it.
And it's important for them, it's important for the nuclear weapons, it's important for the success of Afghanistan, because inside Pakistan you have a large group of Pashtuns that are — that are Taliban, that they're going to come rushing back into Afghanistan when we go.
But Sumar comes into her element when she visits with a group of Pashtuns near the Afghan border and bravely challenges their antedilluvian views on Islam and the status of women in society.
Fractured groups of Pashtun tribesmen on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border do not yet appear willing to unite and take on the insurgents in their midst, as Arab tribes did in Iraq.
Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.F.
Not far from the Intercontinental Hotel in south Kabul I spoke to a group of 870 refugees, Pashtun farmers from Helmand who had fled US air strikes.
ConTheyed in Part 2, to be published on Tuesday, July 22.
They were led by Mullah Omar and his inner group of 30-something Pashtun madrassa students – all rough-hewn veterans of the CIA -and Saudi-backed jihad against the Soviets.
