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Pathan (disambiguation)

Pathan is a synonym commonly used in South Asia to refer to the Pashtun people, alternatively called ethnic Afghans, the largest and second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively. It may also refer to the following communities:

  • Pathans of Bihar
  • Pathans of Gujarat
  • Pathans of Kashmir
  • Pathans of Punjab
  • Pathans of Rajasthan
  • Pathans of Sindh
  • Pathans of Uttar Pradesh
  • Pathans of Tamil Nadu

Usage examples of "pathan".

A tall bearded Pathan had a terrifying few minutes at the hands of a Bokharan soldier before the yawer himself verified that the suspect was not Khilburn.

As a soldier the Pathan is a finer shot, a hardier man, a better marcher, especially on the hillside, and possibly an even more brilliant fighter.

I was easier for the Pathans to see than any other of our party, and well for me that singlestick and gloves have always been my favorite pastime!

I might not die of cold, or heat, or thirst, or starvation, or at the hands of robbers, Pathans, Tadjiks, Uzbeks, or Turkomen.

Carl Hollywood strolled through encampments of Ashantis, Kurds, Armenians, Navajos, Tibetans, Senderos, Mormons, Jesuits, Lapps, Pathans, Tutsis, the First Distributed Republic and its innumerable offshoots, Heartlanders, Irish, and one or two local CryptNet cells who had now been flushed into the open.

Replacing fixed and abrupt lines on a flat space would be a shifting pattern of ecoregions and buffer entities, like the Kurdish and Azeri buffer entities between Turkey and Iran, the Turkic Uighur buffer between Central Asia and inner China (itself distinct from coastal China), and the Turkic, Pathan, and Punjabi regions between Russia and the heartland of India.

Since the 1980s, gang warfare has been endemic and battles are fought along ethnic lines, between moha-jirs (foreigners who came from India), indigenous Sindhis, Pathans from the Northwest Frontier province, and others: all Moslems.

In the mid-eighteenth century the Pathans, a Moslem people of Indo-Iranian stock, established a buffer between the Safavid Persian empire and the Moghul empire in India.

What d'ye think they're calling you down in Bombay these days - the Pall Mall Pathan!

The remnants of the Pathans were fleeing over the wall, harried by the triumphant Turkomans, who in victory were no more merciful than the average Oriental.

I reached the valley head in time to see the last of the Pathans depart, and I have been hiding here awaiting a chance to catch you alone.

And their Pathans, outside of hunting, consider all forms of labor to be women's work.