Word: pakhtoonistan
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...good friend, Pakistan. He had already nosily sided with India against Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. Now he insisted that it was only just for some 6,000,000 Pathan tribesmen and their hill country in West Pakistan should be severed from Pakistan, turned into the state of Pakhtoonistan and joined with the Afghan state. Premier Daoud appeared delighted...
...King Zahir's own royal family. The British, in their old boundary-drawing days, had once separated the fierce Pathans (or Pakhtoons) from Afghanistan. Since the British never subdued them, say Pathan agitators, Pakistan has no right to claim their lands as a legacy from the British. "Pakhtoonistan," King Zahir told his Parliament last week, "remains a basic demand of Afghanistan...
...Fakir of Ipi's impetuous followers, who love their girls second only to their guns and woo them with a ditty which begins, "Your eyes are two loaded pistols," thereupon increased their pressure on the Karachi government. By now, Prime Minister Daoud, expanding his notion of Pakhtoonistan to include more than half of West Pakistan, was demanding all the territory west of the Indus River, right down to the Arabian...
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