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Pashtun may refer to:
- a member of the Pashtuns, an ethnic group from Afghanistan and Pakistan
- something deriving from the Pashtuns or something relating to Pashtun culture
- Pashto, the language spoken by the Pashtuns
Usage examples of "pashtun".
Pashtuns, who are concentrated in the southern part of the country, extending into the North-West Frontier and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.
I am also fluent in my native Sindi, in Pashtun, in Hindi and Panjabi.
Witnesses have seen the Pashtun mountain men moving like mountain goats through their own terrain, legs seemingly immune to exhaustion, breathing unlabored when others are gasping for breath.
A gentle man, approachable and civilized, he accepted his place in the informal pecking order here: although he was prized as one of the few Pashtuns to have come over to the UN’s side, as an Afghan he had to defer to the Americans, and he spent a lot more time copiloting than piloting.
However, we did so by working with Pashtun leaders in southern Afghanistan and bringing in well-known Pashtun leaders such as Hamid Qarzai, who still had considerable followings inside the country.