Making of the Other: Critiquing Baloch Historiography by Jahanzeb Khan

Subjects: “…Origin of Baloch and Pashtuns…”
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Literately Research in Khyber Pakthunkhwa by Noor Faraz, Muhammad Imtiaz

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Associations between white matter integrity and postural control in adults with traumatic brain injury by Cris Zampieri, Jacob B. Leary, Pashtun Shahim, Diane Damiano, Pei-Shu Ho, Dzung L. Pham, Leighton Chan

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Clash of Identities: Ontological (In)Securities of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Repercussions by Farhat Taj

“…The routines often have harmful consequences for the civilian population, especially in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan.…”
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Parental perceptions surrounding polio and self-reported non-participation in polio supplementary immunization activities in Karachi, Pakistan: a mixed methods study by Asif Raza Khowaja, Sher Ali Khan, Naveeda Nizam, Saad Bin Omer, Anita Zaidi

“…Low-income Pashtuns were more likely to not have participated in polio SIAs than low-income non-Pashtuns (odds ratio, OR: 7.1; 95% confidence interval, CI: 3.47-14.5). …”
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Anthropological analyses of 30 insertion/deletion autosomal markers in five major ethnic groups of Pakistan by Muhammad Adnan Shan, Julie Mechlenborg, Rebecca Røgen, Claus Børsting, Niels Morling

“…The combined match probability ranged from 2.0E-12 (Pashtun and Baloch) to 1.0E-12 (Sindhi), and the mean paternity exclusion power varied from 0.995 (Punjabi, Sindhi, and Saraiki) to 0.996 (Pashtun and Baloch). …”
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The threat of talibanisation of Pakistan : a case study of federally administered tribal areas (FATA) and north west frontier province (NWFP) by Syed Adnan Ali Shah Bukhari

“…Gradually, the Afghan Taliban and AQ were able to spread their ideology and recruit local Pashtun tribesmen to their cause of waging jihad in Afghanistan and abroad. …”
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Shah Shuja’s ‘Hidden History’ and its Implications for the Historiography of Afghanistan by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

“…Shuja’s lack of Pashto credentials, his dependency on British capital, and his circular migration pattern are viewed as normative rather than exceptional for Afghan rulers, and as such this essay contributes to a revision of the traditional historiography of Afghanistan that views the country through the incompatible lenses of Pashtun ethnic domination of the Afghan state structure and Pashtun tribal resistance to Afghan state formation.1…”
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Protective effect of Mediterranean-type glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency against Plasmodium vivax malaria by Awab, GR, Aaram, F, Jamornthanyawat, N, Suwannasin, K, Pagornrat, W, Watson, JA, Woodrow, CJ, Dondorp, AM, Day, NP, Imwong, M, White, NJ

“…We fitted a Bayesian statistical model to observed G6PD Med allele frequencies in 999 Pashtun patients presenting with acute Plasmodium vivax malaria and 1408 population controls. …”

A population survey of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) 563C>T (Mediterranean) mutation in Afghanistan by Jamornthanyawat, N, Awab, G, Tanomsing, N, Pukrittayakamee, S, Yamin, F, Dondorp, A, Day, N, White, N, Woodrow, C, Imwong, M

“…This varied according to self-reported ethnicity, with prevalence in the Pashtun/Pashai group of 33/369 (8.9%) compared to 7/344 individuals in the rest of the population (2.0%; p<0.001, Chi-squared test). …”

Arab cities in the first century AH by Adil Aboo

“…During the war of liberation, Arabs had to have bases from which they could depart from and Pashtun. The cities of Basra, Kufa, Fustat, Kairouan and Wasit were the most important of those bases that witnessed in the first century the course, and these cities are of special importance as they represent the development of Arab architecture during that century in which the distinct foundations of Islamic architecture and arts that All the countries that entered the Islamic state prevailed, with some modifications imposed by the climatic conditions and the geographical environment, in addition to the influences of local arts. …”
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Social determinants of low uptake of childhood vaccination in high-risk squatter settlements in Karachi, Pakistan – A step towards addressing vaccine inequity in urban slums by Shifa Salman Habib, Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz, Hasan Nawaz Tahir, Lala Aftab Mazhar, Zahid Memon

“…Conclusion: Pockets of critically low under-vaccinations within the urban slums of Karachi are associated with Pashtun ethnicity, distance to the vaccination centre, lack of mothers’ education and lack of stable family income as in the case of unemployed and daily wage-earning fathers. …”
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Protective effect of Mediterranean-type glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency against Plasmodium vivax malaria by Ghulam R Awab, Fahima Aaram, Natsuda Jamornthanyawat, Kanokon Suwannasin, Watcharee Pagornrat, James A Watson, Charles J Woodrow, Arjen M Dondorp, Nicholas PJ Day, Mallika Imwong, Nicholas J White

“…We fitted a Bayesian statistical model to observed G6PD Med allele frequencies in 999 Pashtun patients presenting with acute Plasmodium vivax malaria and 1408 population controls. …”
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The implications of ethnic division in Afghanistan, with particular reference to the Hazara Mongols by Jones, SA

“…They are the main religious heterodox group in Afghanistan and this fact appears to have considerable importance in their relationship with the ruling Pashtuns. Accordingly I have attempted here to outline some of the main features of ethnic relations in Afghanistan, concentrating particularly on the Hazara-Pashtun relationship as it has developed or changed in the last hundred years. …”

An Investigation into the Role of Language in Regional Connectivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Nasim Gul

“…It implies that the present study investigates the correlation between Pashto language and Pashtun culture in both countries. The data for this study is collected from Pashto language Poets, authors, MPhil, and PhD scholars belonging to Pakistan and Afghanistan. …”
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Orientalism’s Hinduism, Orientalism’s Islam, and the Twilight of the Subcontinental Imagination by Anustup Basu

“…Using the figure of the ethnic Pathan/Pashtun as a trope in South Asian culture, this essay provides a genealogical account of the modern emergence of Hindu–Muslim “religious” conflicts played along the lines of nation-thinking in the Indian subcontinent. …”
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An Analysis of Urban Ethnic Inclusion of Master Plans—In the Case of Kabul City, Afghanistan by Fakhrullah Sarwari, Hiroko Ono

“…The city is ethnically divided mainly among the different ethnicities of Pashtun, Tajik, and Hazara, which live in three different zones. …”
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An Investigation into the Role of Language in Regional Connectivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Nasim Gul

“…It implies that the present study investigates the correlation between Pashto language and Pashtun culture in both countries. The data for this study is collected from Pashto language Poets, authors, MPhil, and PhD scholars belonging to Pakistan and Afghanistan. …”
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Non-Muslim Minorities in the Modern Afghanistan’s Economy by Riccardo Bonotto

“…Mainly, two components of the Afghan society made this system work: Pashtun nomads and non-Muslim minorities. The first ones carried out the logistical work that allowed the goods to reach the various bazaars of the region where they are sold. …”
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Пекторали иранских и иранизированных народов древности / Pectorals of the Iranian-speaking and Iranized Peoples in Antiquity by Yatsenko S.A.

“…The last area of their usage until recently was the Eastern Hindukush where Pashtun and Dardic peoples preserved the part of traditions of the ancient Iranians in the décor of pectorals.…”
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