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- 1 2 Petrovsky, p. 38
- ↑ Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo (2014). "Chapter One - Pashtunwali: The Warrior Ethos". The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination: The Normative-Axiological Aspects of Afghan Tradition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 9781443865722.
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