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Tribal Belt and the Defence of British India: a Critical Appraisal of British Strategy in the North-West Frontier During the First World War
Tribal Belt and the Defence of British India: A Critical Appraisal of British Strategy in the North-West Frontier during the First World War Dr. Salman Bangash. “History is certainly being made in this corridor…and I am sure a great deal more history is going to be made there in the near future - perhaps in a rather unpleasant way, but anyway in an important way.” (Arnold J. Toynbee )1 Introduction No region of the British Empire afforded more grandeur, influence, power, status and prestige then India. The British prominence in India was unique and incomparable. For this very reason the security and safety of India became the prime objective of British Imperial foreign policy in India. India was the symbol of appealing, thriving, profitable and advantageous British Imperial greatness. Closely interlinked with the question of the imperial defence of India was the tribal belt2 or tribal areas in the North-West Frontier region inhabitant by Pashtun ethnic groups. The area was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defence, which had substantial geo-political and geo-strategic significance for the British rule in India. Tribal areas posed a complicated and multifaceted defence problem for the British in India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Peace, stability and effective control in this sensitive area was vital and indispensable for the security and defence of India. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 1 Arnold J. Toynbee, „Impressions of Afghanistan and Pakistan‟s North-West Frontier: In Relation to the Communist World,‟International Affairs, 37, No. 2 (April 1961), pp. -
A Case Study of the Bazaar Valley Expedition in Khyber Agency 1908
Journal of Law and Society Law College Vol. 40, No. 55 & 56 University of Peshawar January & July, 2010 issues THE BRITISH MILITARY EXPEDITIONS IN THE TRIBAL AREAS: A CASE STUDY OF THE BAZAAR VALLEY EXPEDITION IN KHYBER AGENCY 1908 Javed Iqbal*, Salman Bangash**1, Introduction In 1897, the British had to face a formidable rising on the North West Frontier, which they claim was mainly caused by the activities of ‘Mullahs of an extremely ignorant type’ who dominated the tribal belt, supported by many disciples who met at the country shrines and were centre to “all intrigues and evils”, inciting the tribesmen constantly against the British. This Uprising spread over the whole of the tribal belt and it also affected the Khyber Agency which was the nearest tribal agency to Peshawar and had great importance due to the location of the Khyber Pass which was the easiest and the shortest route to Afghanistan; a country that had a big role in shaping events in the tribal areas on the North Western Frontier of British Indian Empire. The Khyber Pass remained closed for traffic throughout the troubled years of 1897 and 1898. The Pass was reopened for caravan traffic on March 7, 1898 but the rising highlighted the importance of the Khyber Pass as the chief line of communication and trade route. The British realized that they had to give due consideration to the maintenance of the Khyber Pass for safe communication and trade in any future reconstruction of the Frontier policy. One important offshoot of the Frontier Uprising was the Tirah Valley expedition during which the British tried to punish those Afridi tribes who had been responsible for the mischief. -
'As If Hell Fell On
‘a s if h ell fel l on m e’ THE HUmAn rIgHTS CrISIS In norTHWEST PAKISTAn amnesty international is a global movement of 2.8 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the universal Declaration of human rights and other international human rights standards. we are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations. amnesty international Publications first published in 2010 by amnesty international Publications international secretariat Peter Benenson house 1 easton street london wc1X 0Dw united kingdom www.amnesty.org © amnesty international Publications 2010 index: asa 33/004/2010 original language: english Printed by amnesty international, international secretariat, united kingdom all rights reserved. This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for advocacy, campaigning and teaching purposes, but not for resale. The copyright holders request that all such use be registered with them for impact assessment purposes. for copying in any other circumstances, or for re-use in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publishers, and a fee may be payable. Front and back cover photo s: families flee fighting between the Taleban and Pakistani government forces in the maidan region of lower Dir, northwest -
Pakistan Date: 14 February 2005
Refugee Review Tribunal AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE Research Response Number: PAK17193 Country: Pakistan Date: 14 February 2005 Keywords: Pakistan – NWFP – Khatm-e-Manshiat – Sahar Newspaper –Afridi clan This response was prepared by the Country Research Section of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RRT within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Questions 1. Any information on the movement Khatm-e- Manshiat would be of assistance. 2. Any information on the newspaper Sahar would be of assistance. 3. What information is available on the “Afridi clan” and any connections with narcotics trafficking? RESPONSE 1. Any information on the movement Khatm-e- Manshiat would be of assistance. Information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) indicates the organisation called Khatm-e-Manchiate does exist. It was reportedly an anti-drug organisation, formed in the mid 1980’s, and based in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The pertinent extract follows in detail: Khatm-e-Manchiate was an anti-drug organization which had a close relationship with the National Awami Party, one of the largest political parties in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). Khatm-e-Manchiate was formed in the mid 1980’s, however its impact on preventing drug use in the NWFP was limited. The group, although technically still in existence, is no longer operational. Both Khatm-e-Manchiate and the now defunct Tehrik-e- Surkhposhtan (an anti-colonial movement formed in NWFP before partition) had close associations with the Afghan intelligence agency, KHAD (DIMIA Country Information Service 2002, Country Information Report No 52/02 – Khatm-e-Manchiate, (sourced from DFAT advice of 6 March 2002), 11 March – Attachment 1). -
1 TRIBE and STATE in WAZIRISTAN 1849-1883 Hugh Beattie Thesis
1 TRIBE AND STATE IN WAZIRISTAN 1849-1883 Hugh Beattie Thesis presented for PhD degree at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies 1997 ProQuest Number: 10673067 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10673067 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 2 ABSTRACT The thesis begins by describing the socio-political and economic organisation of the tribes of Waziristan in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as aspects of their culture, attention being drawn to their egalitarian ethos and the importance of tarburwali, rivalry between patrilateral parallel cousins. It goes on to examine relations between the tribes and the British authorities in the first thirty years after the annexation of the Punjab. Along the south Waziristan border, Mahsud raiding was increasingly regarded as a problem, and the ways in which the British tried to deal with this are explored; in the 1870s indirect subsidies, and the imposition of ‘tribal responsibility’ are seen to have improved the position, but divisions within the tribe and the tensions created by the Second Anglo- Afghan War led to a tribal army burning Tank in 1879. -
Special Status of Tribal Areas (FATA): an Artificial Imperial Construct Bleeding Asia
Special Status of Tribal Areas (FATA): An Artificial Imperial Construct Bleeding Asia Sarfraz Khan* Introduction Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan is a narrow belt stretching along the Pak-Afghan border, popularly known as the Durand Line, named after Sir Mortimor Durand, who surveyed and established this borderline between Afghanistan and British India in 1890-1894. It comprises seven agencies namely: Kurram, Khyber, North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Bajaur, Mohmand, and Orakzai along with six Frontier Regions (FRs): FR-Peshawar, FR-Kohat, FR.Bannu, FR.Lakki, FR. D.I.Khan, and FR.Tank. FATA accounts for 27220 km2 or 3.4% of Pakistan's land area. Either side of FATA Pashtun tribes reside in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the 1998 census the population of FATA was 3.138 million or 2.4% of Pakistan's total population, currently estimated approximately 3.5 million. Various Pashtun Muslim tribes inhabit FATA. A small number of religious minorities, Hindus and Sikhs, also inhabit some of the tribal agencies. The following are the tribes residing in FATA. In Khyber Agency: Afridi (Adamkhel, Akakhel, Kamarkhel, Kamberkhel, Kukikhel, Malik Dinkhel, Sipah, Zakhakhel), Shinwari (Ali Sherkhel), Mullagori (Ahmadkhel, Ismailkhel) and Shilmani (Shamsherkhel, Haleemzai, Kam Shilmani).1 In Kurram: Turi, Bangash, Sayed, Zaimusht, Mangal, Muqbil, Ali Sherzai, Massuzai, and Para Chamkani.2 In Bajaur: Salarzai branch of the Tarkalanri tribe (Ibrahim Khel, Bram Khel (Khan Khel) and Safi.3 In Mohmand: Musakhel, Tarakzai, Safi, Uthmankhel, and Haleemzai.4 In Orakzai: Aurakzai and Daulatzai. 5 In South Waziristan: Mahsud Wazir, and Dottani/ Suleman Khels.6 In North Waziristan: Dawar, Wazir, Saidgi and Gurbaz.7 In Frontier Regions: Ahmadzai, Uthmanzai, Shiranis, Ustrana, zarghunkhel, Akhorwal, Shirakai, Tor Chappar, Bostikhel, Jawaki, Hasan khel, Ashukhel, Pasani, Janakor, Tatta, Waraspun, and Dhana. -
Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL: Name: Yasser Durrani Father’s Name: Late. Prof. Muhammad Jawaid Durrani Date of Birth: 9th April, 1975 Place of Birth: Peshawar Domicile: Peshawar (NWFP) N.I.C. No: 135-75-307808 Nationality: Pakistani Religion: Islam Marital Status: Married Telephone (Res): 92-091-5860516 Telephone (Off): 92-091-9216558 Cell No: 0346-9083543 E- Mail: [email protected] [email protected] MAILING ADDRESS: Postal Address: Yasser Durrani (Assistant Professor) Food Science and Technology Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar. Pakistan. Permanent Address: House No.188.SectorE-5, Street#7, Phase# 7 Hayatabad Peshawar, Pakistan. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: S.No Degree/ Year of Total Obtained % age CGPA Major Certificate passing marks marks subjects 1 SSC 1992 850 597 70.2 Bio/Chem/ Maths/Phy 2 HSSC 1994 1100 565 51.3 Chem/ Maths/Phy 3 B.Sc (Hons) 1st 1996 1600 1255 78.4 3.34/ General 4.00 Agric 2nd 1997 1600 1133 70.8 3.10/ General 4.00 Agric 3rd 1998 1500 1082 72.1 3.10/ Food Sci 4.00 &Tech 4th 1999 1400 1117 79.7 3.47/ Food Sci 4.00 & Tech Total 6100 4587 75.20 3.27/ 4.00 4 M.Sc Total 2000-02 1000 809 80.90 3.70/ Food Sci (Hons) 4.00 & Tech 5 PhD In progress under HEC Indigenous PhD fellowship program. 1 Experience: Six months of Teaching/Research experience voluntarily from Sep to Jan. (2001) in Food Science & Technology Department Agricultural University Peshawar. Pakistan. Six months of research experience as Junior Research Assistant from 1st Dec 2001 to 30th June 2002 in Food Science & Technology Department Agricultural University Peshawar. -
Afridi Tribe
Program for Culture and Conflict Studies AFRIDI TRIBE The Program for Culture & Conflict Studies Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA Material contained herein is made available for the purpose of peer review and discussion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense. PRIMARY LOCATION Khyber Agency, Peshawar District MAJOR TOWNS The headquarters for the Political Agent is in Peshawar, but Assistant Political Agents may be found in Bara, Jamrud, and Landi Kotal. There is also a government presence (Customs house) at Torkham on the Durand Line. TERRAIN AND CLIMATE TERRAIN FATA is situated between the latitudes of 31° and 35° North, and the longitudes of 69° 15' and 71° 50' East, stretching for maximum length of approximately 450 kilometers and spanning more than 250 kilometers at its widest point. Spread over a reported area of 27,220 square kilometers, it is bounded on the north by the district of Lower Dir in the NWFP, and on the east by the NWFP districts of Bannu, Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Karak, Kohat, Lakki Marwat, Malakand, Nowshera and Peshawar. On the south-east, FATA joins the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in the Punjab province, while the Musa Khel and Zhob districts of Balochistan are situated to the south. To the west lies Afghanistan. The central region covers the Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai agencies, and the FRs of Kohat and Peshawar. Here, the Safid Koh Mountains rise from the Terimangal pass and stretch eastward, reaching an elevation of 3,600 meters. The Sikaram, at 4,760 meters, is the tallest peak in this range. -
Stratification Among Pathans of Farrukhabad Distt
STRATIFICATION AMONG PATHANS OF FARRUKHABAD DISTT DISSERTATION SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF fHuittx of $fitlofi;o)iIip IN SOCIOLOGY BY Muzammil Husain Siddiqui Under the supervision of Dr. JAMIL FAROOQUI READER Department of Sociology Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh (India) 19 86 -sooa DS990 ^H^C^^^ V /" DEDICATED TO MY BELOVED *H 0 T H E R* DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY Ref. No. D. ./SO ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH-202001 Dated. 17,9.1586 rir.nUZArWIL HUSAIN SlOOiaUI has CQfflpletad hi3 W.Phil dissertation on"STRATIFICATION AWONG PATHANS Of TARBUKHABAO OISTT". undar ny supsrvl* slon. His work is original and auitabls for subni- ssion for th« award of n.Phil d«gr«B in SOCIOLOGY. ^n- 0r.3AniL FARQOqUI Oapartmant of Sociology A.n.U.Aligarh, PREFACE Social inequality and stratification have always been the subject of keen interest for social scientist in general and sociologist in particular. Human societies throughout the world and in all the ages have been organised into groups and these groups have been arranged in certain order of hierarchy. Sociologists are always eager in providing interpretation to the system of hierarchy and the placement of individuals in different groups in the hierarchy. Generally society's stratification system has been argued in terms of two broad approachefii. One is based on the Marxian interpretation to the nature of human relationships, popularly known as conflict approach or class approach to social stratification. Opposed to this approach, there are sociologists who prefer to analyse the social stratification system on functional line. Muslim society in principle negates the operation of any stratification in society, but in actual practice they are also stratified in terms of different groups and categories, present study "stratification Among Pathans of Farrukhabad Distt," is an attempt to imdeirstand the nature of social stratification and the notion of inequality. -
Roots of the Pashto Language and Phases of Its Literary Evolution
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ISSN: 2319-7064 Research Gate Impact Factor (2018): 0.28 | SJIF (2018): 7.426 Roots of the Pashto Language and Phases of its Literary Evolution Noor Ahmad Aail1, Kamal Din Kamal2 1, 2Assistant Professor at Paktia University, Education Faculty, Pashto Language and Literature Department, Gardez, Paktia, Afghanistan Abstract: The social and recorded richness of the Pashto just as its noteworthiness inside the setting of different dialects has been recognized over the world. This article investigates the logical inconsistencies of different students of history and philologists regarding the cause of Pashto as a primary language of South Asia, with uncommon reference to Semitic and Aryan assumptions, the procedure of improvement of its writing, the dialects of the language and its place inside the setting of the South Asian semantic reality. This work additionally investigates the advancement of Pashto writing and fundamentally researches an as of late led DNA study that discredits Pakhtun's hereditary relationship with Arabs. Keywords: Roots of Pashto, dialectology, Pashto literature. 1. Introduction Northwestern dialects of Pashto has been measured to be of 80%. The language of multilingual Afghanistan is Pashto, which isn't just both national and authority language of the nation “Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, alongside Dari yet additionally a provincial language of accounting for about 60 percent of the population, with Pakistan, spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The significance Tajiks (27%), Hazaras (25%), Uzbeks (9%), Aimaqs (4%), of the language wound up clear at the season of the Turkmen people (3%), Baluch (2%), and other groups (4%) Afghanistan war. -
46378-002: CAREC Regional Improving Border Services Project
Updated Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan November 2018 Main Report – Part 2 of 2 PAK: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Regional Improving Border Services Project – Torkham Border Prepared by the Federal Board of Revenue, Government of Pakistan for the Asian Development Bank. This is an updated version of the draft originally posted in May 2015 available on http://www.adb.org/projects//46378-002/documents. This updated land acquisition and resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. SECTION 2 SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT 2.1 OBJECTIVES OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT PLAN 36. Main objective of the LARP is to identify the physically and economically affected persons, assess the impacts on APs, provide compensation to APs, and develop a mechanism to implement LARP. For Torkham BSIP, LARP is prepared by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as per resettlement policy provisions defined for the project consistent with requirements of ADB’s Involuntary Resettlement Policy requirement-II under SPS 2009 and the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) 1901. It identifies the APs, assesses all project impacts and sets out objectives, principles, compensation criteria and public participation mechanisms to rehabilitate the APs. -
The Case of the Pashtun Tribes Mohamed Umer Khan Royal
Re-emergent Pre-State Substructures: The Case of the Pashtun Tribes Mohamed Umer khan Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Politics & International Relations PhD March 2011 1 Declaration of Authorship I, Mohamed Umer Khan, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. Signed: ______________________ 2 Abstract This study explores borderlands as a function of the imposition of the post-colonial state upon primary structures of identity, polity and social organisation which may be sub-state, national or trans-state in nature. This imposition, particularly in the postcolonial experience of Asia, manifests itself in incongruence between identities of nation and state, between authority and legitimacy, and between beliefs and systems, each of which is most acutely demonstrated in the dynamic borderlands where the competition for influence between non-state and state centres of political gravity is played out. The instability in borderlands is a product of the re-territorialisation of pre-state primary structures, and the state’s efforts in accommodating, assimilating or suppressing these structures through a combination of militarisation, providing opportunities for greater political enfranchisement, and the structure of trans-borderland economic flows. The Pashtun tribes of the Afghan borderland between Pakistan and Afghanistan are exhibiting a resurgence of autonomy from the state, as part of the re-territorialisation of the primary substructure of Pakhtunkhwa that underlies southern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan. This phenomenon is localised, tribally driven, and replicated across the entirety of Pakhtunkhwa. It is a product of the pashtunwali mandated autonomy of zai from which every kor, killi and khel derives its security, and through the protection of which each is able to raise its nang, and is able to realise its position within the larger clan or tribe.