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- Ustad Shah Wali is one of those living Pashtun singers who have sung more than 10,000 songs in Pashto, Dari, and Urdu. An Afghan by birth, Shah...
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- Qazi Hussain Ahmad is the president of the Pakistani Muslim religious party, the Jama'at-e-Islami. He is also the leader of the Muttahidah...
- male
- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, aka Abd-i-Rab Rasoul Sayaf, is a Pashtun warlord commander of a Pashtun militia.
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- Asfandyar Wali Khan is the Leader of the Awami National Party in Pakistan. His father, Khan Wali Khan, was the party’s first President. He is the gr...
- male, deceased (1996)
- Dr. Mohammad Najibullah (Pashto/; born 1947, killed September 27, 1996) was the fourth and last President of the communist Democratic Republic of...
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- Asadullah Khalid, an ethnic Pashtun, was Governor of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2005. He is currently the Governor of Kandahar...
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- Dr. Amin Tarzi is an analyst for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Senior Fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. He previously...
- male, deceased (1690)
- Khushal Khan Khattak (Pashto: خوشحال خان خټک) was a famous Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashto and U...
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- Rahman Baba known as the Nightingale of Afghanistan and Pakhtoonkhwa, Rahman Baba is a legendary Pashto Sufi poet. His poetry places him alongside...
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- Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai, younger brother of Hamid Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is the representative for southern...
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