Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A camp of the native Indian regiments.
- noun A body of Afridi soldiers: so used in English newspaper accounts of the Afridi campaign, 1897.
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Examples
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Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that attack was a "reaction to the successes" of an anti-Taliban militia, known as a lashkar, in Badhber.
Pakistan Suicide Bombing In Mosque Kills At Least 50 People AP 2010
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After the blast, enraged villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, of about 500 men to expel the militants from the area, said the top government official in the region.
Best News Ever About Pakistan... GayandRight 2009
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Members of the militia - or "lashkar" - were filling their vehicles at a petrol station when the bomb exploded.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rob Crilly 2012
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Members of the militia - or "lashkar" - were filling their vehicles at a petrol station when the bomb exploded.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rob Crilly 2012
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The spokesman suggested the victims may have been targeted because most of them belonged to the Salarzai tribe, which was among the first to set up a militia - known as a lashkar - to fight the Taliban in 2008.
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The spokesman suggested the victims may have been targeted because most of them belonged to the Salarzai tribe, which was among the first to set up a militia - known as a lashkar - to fight the Taliban in 2008.
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Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that attack was a "reaction to the successes" of an anti-Taliban militia, known as a lashkar, in Badhber.
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The spokesman suggested the victims may have been targeted because most of them belonged to the Salarzai tribe, which was among the first to set up a militia - known as a lashkar - to fight the Taliban in 2008.
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Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that attack was a "reaction to the successes" of an anti-Taliban militia, known as a lashkar, in Badhber.
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The spokesman suggested the victims may have been targeted because most of them belonged to the Salarzai tribe, which was among the first to set up a militia - known as a lashkar - to fight the Taliban in 2008.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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