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Daily Pioneer
February 5, 2018
From 1666, it was ruled by a loose confederacy of tribes under the Khanate of Kalat. Alarmed at Russian ... The Baloch see Pakistan as an artifice based on a false claim of Muslims being one nation despite ethnic heterogeneity (Pashtun, Punjabi, Seraiki, Sindhi and Baloch). It began as an alliance of theÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
February 1, 2018
Just as many tribal councils – such as those of the historical Iroquois Confederacy or the Pashtun tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan – encourage broad participation, so, too, should state governments consider an increase in the number of seats in their legislatures. Most state legislatures bear responsibilityÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 16, 2018
There are similar tribal-inspired political and social reforms the United States should consider. Just as many tribal councils — such as those of the historical Iroquois Confederacy or the Pashtun tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan — encourage broad participation, so, too, should state governments considerÃâà...
Scroll.in
January 10, 2018
Ambedkar's reason for celebrating a British victory was simple: he characterised the Maratha confederacy as a socio-political system that brutally ... Sikhs, for example, celebrate the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi, when the British Indian army took on a large number of Pashtuns in what is now the KhyberÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan (blog)
December 11, 2017
Socially connected, culturally the same but politically fragmented, and yet the manifestation of the political fragmentation resulting in the same chaos and same reign of violence. This is land of Pashtuns; spreading across from east of Afghanistan to its west and occupying the adjacent land mass in Pakistan.
Sharnoff's Global Views
September 18, 2017
The idea of a Jordan-Palestine Confederacy had recently surfaced again more than forty years following its rejection by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel when late King Hussein of Jordan originally proposed it back in 1972. “King Hussein was a visionary leader far ahead of his time.
The American Interest
August 29, 2017
Still, non-state actors have usually been limited in their ability to directly, let alone successfully, challenge national or colonial authority—which is why the occasional exception, like the Mahdi rebellion in the Sudan in the 1880s and 1890s, and the Pashtun tribes in parts of Pakistan, stand out so much.
The Hindu
August 19, 2017
Signs calling for the renaming Lee Park to Heyer Park, the site where White Supremacists and Nazis gathered last Saturday, lay at the base of the Robert E. Lee statue after Heather Heyer was murdered when James Alex Fields Jr., a White Supremacist, ran his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, killingÃâà...
The Hindu
August 15, 2017
... would step up efforts to pull such monuments from public spaces. The Mayors of Baltimore and Lexington, Kentucky, said they would push ahead with plans to remove statues caught up in a renewed national debate over whether monuments to the U.S. Civil War's pro-slavery Confederacy are symbols ofÃâà...
The News on Sunday
July 15, 2017
Balochistan is demographically and ethnically divided into five major ethnic groups: Baloch/Brauhi, Pashtun, settlers, Hazaras and minorities. Baloch and Brauhi both enjoy similar cultural and religious norms since Kalat Confederacy emerged in 1662 with only language difference as Brauhi is Dravidian.
Aljazeera.com
May 14, 2017
The Charlottesville protests were the latest of several in the US South in recent months over the removal of statues celebrating leaders of the Confederacy, the slave-holding group of states that broke with the North in the early 1860s, prompting the 1861-1865 Civil War. "You're seeing anti-Semitism in theseÃâà...
