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Waziristan (Pakistan)

About Waziristan
1930s resistance movement
Islamic Emirate of Waziristan

See also:

Tochi, or North Waziristan
Wana, or South Waziristan
Pre-independence States of North West Frontier
Pakistan

About Waziristan

Waziristan Mountain tract, SW North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan; 4373 sq. m.; pop. (1961) 394,312; divided into North Waziristan (formerly Tochi) and South Waziristan (formerly Wana); lies along border of Afghanistan; inhabited by Wazirs, a Pathan tribe, divided into the Darwesh Khel and Mahsuds; their chief town is Kaniguram. Since 1860 there have been several uprisings in Waziristan; most serious against the British, called the Third Afghan War, was in 1919-22, when Mahsuds rose in revolt. Kaniguram and Wana subdues; last Mahsud tribes submitted February 1922 (source: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary 1988). In the Times Atlas 1968 it is southeast of Kabul. You can find it on Joaquín de Salas' map of India too.

Jarig Bakker, 3 February 2000

1930s resistance movement

image by Jaume Ollé

The Waziristan resistance movement against the British in the 30's used a red flag with the Takbir (i.e., Allahu Akbar = "God is the greatest") written on it.

Jaume Ollé and Harald Müller, 22-23 September 1997

Islamic Emirate of Waziristan

image located by Chrystian Kretowicz, 1 August 2008

In February 2006, the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan was proclaimed by the Taliban and al-Qaeda-aligned militants there. It gained a sort of tacit, de-facto recognition in September 2006 when Pakistan signed the truce agreement with them. At the ceremonies of the signing, the black flag with the white shahada was raised (described elsewhere as the al-Qaeda flag in opposite colors to the Taliban flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan).

The status of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan remains vague and not clearly or legally resolved by Pakistan or anybody else for that matter.
Source: http://flapsblog.com/2006/09/06/global-war-on-terror-watch-talibanistan-the-establishment-of-the-islamic-emirate-of-waziristan/

Chrystian Kretowicz, 1 August 2008