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The Revered Poet of the Pukhtuns
Gul Agha
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3-7-2009 2:24 PM
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pakistan
,
afghanistan
,
islamists
,
poetry
,
sufism
Gul Agha
says:
His masoleum has been destroyed by the Taliban.
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