The tribe of Wazirs in preparation <br />For the final assault on Mehsud <br />Both belong in history to Wazir <br />But renegade Mehsud went separate <br />Wazirs are the panthers, sleek and graceful <br />Mehsuds much dangerous like a pack of wolves <br />Having pushed the Suleiman khel tribe <br />Occupied the lands in the valley <br />The hills all the waterways <br />Huge fortress houses of mud were made <br />Nomads in character but followed <br />The chief whoever was capable <br />The grazing rights were delineated <br />For some settlement after much bloodshed <br />Feast of victory with lambs slaughtered <br />On the drum beat the victorious <br />Kareem Khoon they say had captured it all <br />With Musa Nika at the border was the saint <br />Whose blessings they carried far <br />Silken turbans of length and light <br />Shaven necks and beards <br />With strong ethnic identity <br />Individual and group <br />The tribe is the supreme <br />When more than a century ago <br />A common house like fort was built <br />Sprinting in later decades <br />To other places <br />20/4/2009<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tribal-ways-the-advent/
