faqir


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a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

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The event instigated many tribespeople of the frontier region (including the faqir of ipi) and became a bursting point for their decades long burning grievances against the British rule.
It would be difficult to pay the employees and our bills with this amount,' said museum director Faqir Saifuddin.
Faqir's lasting contribution has been the classics texts which he collected and collated in an effort not only to preserve them in their original form but also to introduce them to contemporary readers.
Alan Faqir who got popularity for different style of singing was born in Manjhand district Dadu in 1932.
Mohammad Faqir Awan, hailing from District Kohat, appreciated for the re-activating the court in the heart of Qayyum Sports Complex with a new look.
Faqir subsequently suffered injuries on his head and other body parts.
Faqir was awarded with the prestigious President's Pride of Performance award in 1980 whereas the other awards he received include Shahbaz Award (1987), Shah Latif Award (1992) and Kandkot Award (1993).
WASHINGTON: The United States has named three Pakistanis as key terrorist facilitators", saying they worked closely with a well-known backer of Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Taliban known as Shaykh Aminullah.The US Treasury placed Rahman Zeb Faqir Muhammad, Hizb Ullah Astam Khan, and Dilawar Khan Nadir Khan on its blacklist of Specially Designated Global Terrorists," in an effort to disrupt the group's ability to obtain and distribute financing.
The municipality issued a demolition notice against Al Faqir's family house six months ago, under the pretext that it was built without a permit.
The claim made by Pakistan,the petitioners specially Petitioner No 2 Faqir Syed Shams Uddin great grandson of the Faqir Family (who were the Ministers also of late Ranjeet Singh's Government), Guardian of the Minor Duleep Singh.
Umair Shahab, whose father is posted in Peshawar as DIG inquiries and inspection, was strangled in Khayaban-e-Sehar of the DHA by his own guard, named Faqir Muhammad, who later surrendered to police and confessed to his crime, SP Clifton Asad Malhi told The Frontier Post.
The Farmers Syndicate's General Secretary in Sohag Ahmed Faqir explained that the companies operating silos refused to receive wheat from unregistered farmers.
While living in a country previously colonized by the French and peripheral to an increasingly volatile situation in the Middle East, Dwyer transcribed a series of conversations with a Moroccan Faqir. Moroccan Dialogues appeared in 1982, a text inspired by both the interpretive paradigms of Clifford Geertz, Pierre Bourdieu, and the criticism of "Western" productions of knowledge provoked by Talal Asad and Edward W.
Narrimane Yamna Faqir devoile [beaucoup moins que]leur nuit[beaucoup plus grand que] au B-rock