Word: afridi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character was given the desultory guerilla warfare against Afridi tribesmen on the northwest frontier when one of a party of tribesmen shot down and killed a Capt. F. Ashcroft of a British infantry platoon, Observers thought that the incident would precipitate a far more aggressive policy on the part of the British toward suppressing the uprising...
Guerrilla warfare between British garrisons on the northwest frontier and bellicose Pathan tribesmen, begun when a band of Afridi ambuscaded a party of Indian cavalry in the orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over...
...Independent tribesmen living in the mountains of northwest India. Distrust of all mankind and readiness to strike the first blow for the safety of his own life are the maxims of Afridi...
Fazli Wahid, the Haji (squire) of Turangzai was on the warpath with 10,000 bearded Afridi...
Through foreign office secretaries in London hinted at a Gandhi connection, the only thing that the fighting Afridi and the nonviolent disciples of Saint Gandhi have in common is a thoroughgoing distrust of the British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until...