Baluchi

How To Use Baluchi In A Sentence

• Younis al-Mauritani, also known as The Mauritanian, was among three suspected al-Qaida operatives captured in the city of Quetta, which is the capital of southwest Baluchistan and has long been a transit point for militants crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan. NPR Topics: News
• I am amused by the attack on the book's statement about the use of vermilion in the hair partings of female terracottas in very early contexts in Baluchistan.
• They pointed to an upsurge in antigovernment guerrilla activity inside Iran, including a bomb in Zahedan, the economic center of the province of Baluchistan, that killed 11 soldiers in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on February 14; the mysterious death of the Iranian scientist Ardashir Hosseinpour, who worked on uranium enrichment at the Isfahan nuclear facility; and the defection of a high-ranking Iranian general named Ali Asgari, a former deputy minister of defense who was also the Revolutionary Guard officer responsible for training and supplying Hezbollah during its war against the Israelis in southern Lebanon in the 1980s. Grand Illusions
• Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic. The English Is Coming!
• He suggested placing "Bahawudeen of Mooltan, the peer most revered in Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab (when moving) military stores through Vizeeree country. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
• Waiting on the tarmac at Mehrabad Airport to board the flight that would take me south to Kerman, on the dusty edge of Baluchistan, I studied the plane.
• The lamented Dr. Stocks, of Bombay, who travelled amongst and observed the Brahui and the Baluchi nomads in the Pashin valley, informed me that, though they will give milk in exchange for other commodities, yet they consider it a disgrace to make money by it. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• The Omani dialect generally is close to modern standard Arabic, although coastal dialects employ a number of loanwords from Baluchi, Persian, Urdu and Gujarati (two Indo-Aryan languages), and even Portuguese.
• Noting the heightened security of property held by Sayyids and Sufis in Sind and Baluchistan, Gordon proposed using such holy men as "shields for kafilas" passing through the Gomal and Waziri territory. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
• Miners are concerned that resource nationalism is leading governments like Baluchistan to push for a greater take in the profits of projects through increased equity stakes, taxes or royalties, at a time when companies are struggling to satisfy the voracious appetite of emerging economies like China as they rapidly industrialize. Pakistan Gold-Copper Project Faces More Obstacles