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• n  a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez)

• Tall and lean, he was dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez--baggy trousers and long shirt--under a military fatigue jacket, with a scarf to fight the desert cold.
• They were encouraged to look like mujahedin, and they discarded their uniforms for traditional shalwar kameez, or tracksuits, grew beards and wore traditional white religious .
• The more she upbraided Ayub, the louder Pakistanis cheered the frail figure in her shalwar (baggy white silk trousers).

• salwar

News & Articles

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• A dis-credit to New Jersey
  Paging the old Chris Christie — the one who won office four years ago, shaking up the Trenton establishment and staking out a strong stand on issues like restraining New...
  Sept. 12, 2013 - New York Post
• Home Depot Is Accused of Shaking Down Suspected Shoplifters
  A California man accused of stealing less than $10 worth of merchandise has filed a suit alleging that Home Depot is shaking down customers for arbitrary and unjust damages.
  Sept. 11, 2013 - BusinessWeek via Yahoo! Finance
• Onto a world stage
  Shaking their bodies like Shakira comes naturally to the members of the Bohemian Flowers, but dancing while balancing swords on their heads adds a degree of difficulty, danger — and spice — to their choreography. The swords are part of the Immortal Egypt Double Sword and Candle dance, choreographed by Flowers leader Leith Askins Negley and inspired by Ansuya Rathor, an internationally renowned ...
  Sept. 11, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News

Quotes

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• Mohammad Khalil in Earthtimes (press release)
  A tall bearded man in shalwar qameez (traditional dress) came out of a white-coloured car and fired straight at us,Khalil told reporters in Lahore as he stood by the bullet-riddled bus. "As the rocket missed us, a short person also...
• Benazir Bhutto in Boston Globe (registration)
  I quickly shed the shalwar khameez [traditional South Asian dress] and reemerged in jeans and sweatshirts from the Harvard Coop,Bhutto wrote in her autobiography, according to the Crimson story. "I let my hair grow long and straight and...
• Morgan Tsvangirai in CNN International
  Now this is the third time the US immigration has interrogated and detained me for eight to nine hours. My clothes - a shalwar suit, a cap and a beard - made me a victim of discrimination. I told the authorities about my purpose for visiting the... Abdul Sattar Edhi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Sattar_Edhi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHWpVazAAE8FmP28nN5hCX3czNxMg Daily Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp%3Fpage%3D2008%255C02%255C05%255Cstory_5-2-2008_pg7_23&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFC9K9POFe0OOXDZ6cFRfFTdwPu4w Feb 4, 2008 88810 118451 sham A free and fair election is impossible," Tsvangirai told reporters Sunday. "We in the MDC have resolved that we will no longer participate in this violent, illegitimate ...... sham of an election process."