" If you were to roam the world from the arctic goldfields of Kotzebue Sound to the pearl-fisheries of Thursday Island,’ wrote Lowell Thomas when he visited the region in the 1920s, ‘you could find no men more worthy of the title “desperado” than the Pushtuns who live among these jagged, saw-tooth mountains of the Afghan frontier.’

Elliot, Jason. Unexpected Light (p. 56). Pan Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition. "

― Jason Elliot , An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan