Malala Terms Flashcards
badal
revenge
ANP
- Awami National Party
- Pashtun nationalist political party
dyna
truck with open back
FATA
- Federally Administered tribal areas
- region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan governed under system of direct rule (started in British times)
Hadith
sayings of the Prophet
haram
prohibited Islam
hujra
traditional meeting place for men
IDP
someone forced to flee their home but can stay within country’s borders
ISI
Pakistan’s biggest intelligence agency
Jamaat-e-Islam
Pakistani conservative party
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
- Pakistan conservative political party
- strict enforcing of Islamic law
jihad
- holy war
- internal struggle
jirga
tribal assembly
kafir
infidel
khan
local lord
KPK
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “Area of Pashtuns”
lashkar
local militia
madrasa
school for Islamic instruction
maulana
Islamic scholar
LeT
one of Pakistan’s oldest, most powerful militant groups, close links with the ISI
melmastia
hospitality
nang
honor
PPP
Pakistan People’s Party
-founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, led by Benazir and currently co-chaired by Asif Zardari
Pashtunwali
traditional behavioral code for Pashtuns
pir
hereditary saint
pisho
cat
qaumi
national
sabar
patience
swara
practice of resolving tribal feud by handing over woman
talib
religious student, but now means member of Taliban militant group
tarbur
means ‘cousin’, but ironically ‘enemy’
TNSM
Movement for enforcement of Islamic Law
-Sufi Mohammed
TTP
Pakistan Taliban
