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{{Blockquote|Ideal Pukhtun behaviour approximates the features of Pukhtunwali, the code of the Pukhtuns, which includes the following traditional features: courage (tora), revenge (badal), hospitality (melmestia), generosity to a defeated...<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zulfacar|first1=Maliha|author-link1=Maliha Zulfacar|title=Afghan Immigrants in the USA and Germany: A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Ethnic Social Capital|series=Kulturelle Identitat und politische Selbstbestimmung in der Weltgesellschaft|publisher=LIT Verlag|date=1998 | {{Blockquote|Ideal Pukhtun behaviour approximates the features of Pukhtunwali, the code of the Pukhtuns, which includes the following traditional features: courage (tora), revenge (badal), hospitality (melmestia), generosity to a defeated...<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zulfacar|first1=Maliha|author-link1=Maliha Zulfacar|title=Afghan Immigrants in the USA and Germany: A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Ethnic Social Capital|series=Kulturelle Identitat und politische Selbstbestimmung in der Weltgesellschaft|publisher=LIT Verlag|date=1998 | ||
|isbn=9783825836504|page=33}}</ref>|Maliha Zulfacar|1999}} | |isbn=9783825836504|page=33}}</ref>|Maliha Zulfacar|1999}} | ||
::The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress. ... Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid. | |||
:::[[Winston Churchill]] <small>(''My Early Life'', Chapter 11: "The Mahmund Valley")</small> | |||
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