Word: haji
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fazli Wahid, the Haji (squire) of Turangzai was on the warpath with 10,000 bearded Afridi...
...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 the tribesmen had finished their Spring harvest. Crops were poor. Last week came the attack. Riddled by machine guns, shrapnel, blasted by tons of aerial bombs, the tribes men swept...