Talk:Waziristan

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1 Flag
2 Merge with Islamic Emirate of Waziristan?
3 Afghans
4 History section needed
5 Map problems

[edit] Flag

what are the origins of this flag of Waziristan? I have never heard of it or seen it before. What

According to "Flags of the World" that flag belonged to a 1930's resistance movement there. So it's incorrect to say that it is "the flag of Waziristan". However I readded the flag with a correct explanation of its origin because I thought it was historically significant.Inkan1969 23:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Islamic Emirate of Waziristan?

Merge this article with Islamic Emirate of Waziristan? Inkan1969 22:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

My thinking in forming two separate articles is that Waziristan is a cultural region while the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is a political body. It's the same logic behind having separate articles for France and the French Fifth Republic, or India and the Government of India. The argument against this is that the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is not yet important enough to merit its own article. My response to that is that anyone who can fight the Pakistan Army to a standstill — and extract such generous terms as we saw here — they deserve their own Wikipedia article. These guys are not micronation types. They are Islamic hillbillies of the worst sort and will likely be giving NATO a serious headache in the near future. Give 'em their own page I say. technopilgrim 00:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, my thinking was to delete the Waziristan entry and keep only the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan entry. IEW definitely deserves an entry as a breakaway state. I'll agree with you about keeping Waziristan as a cultural region entry. The problem is that the entry as it is doesn't seem to have information not already mentioned in the North Waziristan and South Waziristan entries. So as it is the Waziristan entry seems redundant. Inkan1969 20:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

In light of recent events, I feel that having this as a separate article is helpful. With newscasters mentioning Waziristan frequently when reporting on the Pakistani truce with the tribal entities, we will likely see more people looking for this article. I know that's how I wound up here. On CNN yesterday, several different anchors mentioned Waziristan and had me thinking to myself "Oh great, another new country I never heard of before!" These areas used to just be referred to as Tribal lands on the border of Pakistan. If anything, I'd like to see this article beefed up a bit and puton the front page in the recent events area. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was trying to determine where Waziristan was after watching the news in the USA.Lisapollison 18:33, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

It would be unwise to merge the two articles because Waziristan is the official name for this region and they are part of Pakistan. While Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is nothing but a pipedream of the Taliban.

[edit] Afghans

Do Afghans (Pashtuns or otherwise) make up the principal peoples of Waziristan? I saw a distribution map that said Waziristan spoke the Pashto language, and that their people were reputed as fierce, brave warriors, so I think they might be.

[edit] History section needed

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This should include an explanation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. -- Beland (talk) 18:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map problems

This article or section appears to contradict itself. Please help fix this problem.

One map seems to include non-Waziristan frontier regions in with Waziristan, and the other shows them separately. Is this boundary disputed, or is there an error? -- Beland (talk) 18:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)