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Nafees Ur Rehman Durrani
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Exactly 494 years ago, the 75 years of Pashtun rule of the Delhi Sultanate came to an end when Babur defeated the last Pashtun ruler Ibrahim Khan Lodhi [Reign1517 –
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Afghanistan And The Death of Allama Iqbal! Iqbal's love and appreciation of Afghanistan & Afghan nation in his poetry is well-known. On 81st Death Anniversary of #DrAlamaIqbal, today, I share
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Camels were vital to the Australian economy from 1860s to 1930s but Australia has not been kind to them. Even the very first camel imported to Australia was shot in
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Can you find any connection to #AhmadShahAbdali in this short clip from the Columbia Pictures' movie the Cat Ballou (1965)? #Vilification Well, here is one slide from the Defense Intelligence
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Calling on #PashtunTwitter to take part in this crowd sourced exercise to hashtag (#PashtunsVilified) all possible orientalists' takes & stereotypes that vilify Pashtuns in one way or another. These can
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"A European man offering an Afghani a frying-pan, probably after it was used in a non-halal manner, c. 1896."Afghans in Australia have been subjected to racism & discriminated against since
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Ataullah Ozai-Durrani — A brief thread on this Afghan immigrant in the US who made name & a fortune with the invention of Minute-Rice recipe in the early 1940s, and
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Peshawar, 1946: Bacha Khan and Nehru on a plane en route to Razmak from Peshawar. A disastrous tour by Nehru by all means. His convoy was shot at Khyber, he
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Reminds me of the comical but wrong translation of a Persian name of grape type into English as "young men's testicles"!The grape type is called Khair-i-Ghulaman & translates to alms
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