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http://ogimages.bl.uk/images/019/019XZZ000000108U00041000[SVC2].jpg
chieftains of khyber pass
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Durrani lady of kandhar
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The Northamptonshire Regiment on the march in Waziristan, 1936.
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:eek: Yeh to madran lag rahi hia…
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Ye modren hona hi unko ley dobi. Queen soraya was daughter of Mahmud tarzai , father of afghan journalism and modren thinker. She belonged to mohammadzai tribe of barakzais. Madhbula of bollywood was also Mohammadzai, from father side. Here is another picture which infuriated pashtun tribesmen.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/SorayaTarziFace.jpg
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What is Afghan or Pashton reaction on such images of qeen? @Mezhgan
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What is Afghan or Pashton reaction on such images of qeen? @Mezhgan
Is or was? Your question is in the present tense while it should be in past tense. There are no Kings or Queens in todays Afghanistan. King Amanullah was enemy of British raj and had even attempted to liberate NWFP and FATA through war. He was ambitious man and his efforts of modernizing afghanistan, were more of introducing westren outlook. Traditional pashtuns didnt welcome it. British exploited the situation, they distributed the pictures of queen soraya in the afghan villages and spread the false propagandas and lies, agents as mullahs were hired to do the job. Like muslim nobility of india, women of afghan nobility also used to observe strict pardah. This was first time, pashtun tribesmen saw their queen without hijab and when they were told by british agents that character of queen is not appropiate (there was nothing wrong with queen's character), they got furious.
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A Rohilla horseman
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http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/a/largeimage55166.html
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Ahmad Yadgar : 16th century historian of the Afghans in India
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march march march march
Wonderful, look at the sheer beauty of it 
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march march march march
Wonderful, look at the sheer beauty of it :)
Marching towards their deaths....faqir of ipi surely took down lot of them
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Marching towards their deaths....faqir of ipi surely took down lot of them
That doesn't take away the beauty of it even then, they marched towards death in Dunkirk and later to Berlin too. Fakir of IPI would have been less troublesome than German Wehrmacht
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Edited..double posting
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Tribesmen perform the Khattak Dance in a photograph taken circa 1890.
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Tribesmen gather for a tribal jirga in Waziristan in a picture taken circa 1920.
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An undated poster published in Bombay proudly touts “electric lights and fans” at Dean’s Hotel Peshawar. Erected in 1913, the hotel was amongst the most famous in the entire subcontinent. Built on some 7.21 acres, the hotel attracted admirers from all over the globe. Among its pleased guests were Professor Arnold Toynbee, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Winston Churchill (as a young soldier journalist on his way to Malakand), Quaid-e-Azam, and King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan (in 1929).
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A rare picture of Islamia College Peshawar taken in the 1920s.