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Examples
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Selectors have shown mercy on the other player Yusuf pathan.
Extraordinary people - Dean du Plessis - The blind cricket commentator Norfolk Blogger 2009
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AFP/Getty Images Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wearing a pathan turban and glittering garlands presented by Pakistani tribesmen in Pakistan, Nov. 3, 1986.
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Source told this scribe that Foremr MPA of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Maulana Abdur Rehman had released funds for the graveyard on public demand and assigned the task of its management and construction (side wall etc) to a local activist of JUI, Qari Fazal Haq. but Qari Fazal Haq sold the plot to a pathan causing great public resentment.
Stay order issued 2009
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Prior to 9/11, the “Taliban” (prior to 9/11, and even still to some degree, the word remains vague: no one signs a document saying ‘I am now a Taliban’) enjoyed limited popularity in Afghanistan (particularly in the western half); they thrived for as long as they did because of their key geostrategic stronghold of northeastern region (pashtun/pathan territory).
U.S. Releases Video of Pakistan Airstrike - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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What was even more astonishing to the good professor was that many of the educated pathan families were acquiescing in this fanaticism, under the guise of defiant “tribal pride,” against the West.
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Violent absolutist ideologies have sadly seduced far too many of our dear pathan brethren, who were once known for non-violent revolutionary leaders such as Badshah Khan.
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Brave pathan save the life of 14 saudi nationals in the devastating flood in jeddah
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Brave pathan save the life of 14 saudi nationals in the devastating flood in jeddah
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Brave pathan save the life of 14 saudi nationals in the devastating flood in jeddah
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Brave pathan save the life of 14 saudi nationals in the devastating flood in jeddah
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