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Besides the Popalzai, the Barakzai are the second biggest tribe in Kandahar province, and the most prominent member of the Barakzai is the current governor of the Eastern Afghanistan province of Nengarhar, Gul-Agha Sherzai GAS.
Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: Who Can Lead Kandahar? Khalil Nouri 2011
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Barakzai began fasting to protest the Independent Election Commission removing her along with eight others from parliament membership.
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"He is coming and Wednesday will be the opening," Barakzai said.
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In retrospect, since the elite tribes of Poplazai and Barakzai are the biggest and the most prosperous, they have claimed the biggest fraction, the lion's share of everything, and consequently deprived other tribes who collectively are the majority.
Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: Who Can Lead Kandahar? Khalil Nouri 2011
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"He is coming and Wednesday will be the opening," Barakzai said.
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Like Malalai Joya, fellow woman MP Shukria Barakzai has also been targeted with death threats.
The Cause – Celebrating and Seeking Freedom | Can't Stop the Serenity 2010
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Separately, the Taliban's deputy leader for Nawa-ye Barakzai district in Helmand province was detained by coalition forces Monday, according to a coalition statement.
Fraud Found Rampant in Afghan Vote Maria Abi-Habib 2010
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In the second week of October, Karzai earned the wrath of parliament when he ordered police to forcibly remove a woman member from Herat province, Semin Barakzai, who was on a hunger strike in a tent pitched in the parliament car park.
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Among the individuals targeted were Haji Abdullah Barakzai Ansari, the founder of the money transfer business, Haji Mohammad Khan, the company's manager, and two of its major cash couriers, Eissa Jan Haji Abdul Qayoum and Rahmatullah Mohammad Afzal.
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Barakzai continued her fast in the military hospital, where she was held for days, until tribal elders intervened.
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