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  • n  a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan
  • n  an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan
News & Articles

  • Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life
    Watch Video   Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been covering events in Afghanistan for 20 years. He narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite images.   For 10 years, journalist ...
    June 19, 2013 - The Online NewsHour
  • Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry
    Watch Video Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been covering events in Afghanistan for 20 years. He narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite images. For 10 years, journalist Eliza ...
    June 18, 2013 - The Online NewsHour
  • Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?
    Consider the sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-somethings who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, or Pashtun, and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places.
    June 18, 2013 - Ludwig von Mises Institute
Quotes

  • Robert Blackwill in Sify
    The US polity should stop talking about timelines and exit strategies and accept that the Taliban will inevitably control most of its historic stronghold in the Pashtun south,Blackwill wrote in his opinion piece published in Politico.
  • Michael Hayden in International Herald Tribune
    Pakistanis have generally viewed (al-Qaida) to be more a threat externally, to us, for example, than it is to them. They no longer see that. What we have is a nexus of al-Qaida and Pashtun separatists and extremists,Hayden said. "This is a...
  • Pierre Trudeau in Canada.com
    The Pashtun (people) have extremely different values than ours, values we may not agree with in any case, but it's not our business to try and teach them lessons with weapons,Trudeau told Canwest News Service. "Because, in fact, they'll be...

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