South Waziristan Scouts

The South Waziristan Scouts replaced the South Waziristan Militia and was similar in structure to the Tochi Scouts

External links

• "Guardians of the Frontier" KPK Tribune, 15 February 2015 or earlier, archived.
• Page 313 A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1 by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
• "Carrier Pigeons in British Army" The Bend Bulletin, Bend, Oregon - December 8, 1938 , page 8 (Google coded Nov 30, 1938). The South Waziristan Scouts and an RAF flight from Miranshah, after a carrier pigeon message is received. Google Newspapers.
• South Waziristan Scouts: Chevrolet Lorry Defence Journal Karachi November 1999, now archived.
• Lessons from our past - by Dorset survivor of North West Frontier 12 January 2009 Dorset Echo, archived. Major John Girling served with the South Waziristan Scouts in the 1940s. Following independence in 1947, he spent three more years on the border, seconded to the Pakistan Army.
• South Waziristan -The land of Mehsuds & Wazirs geocities.ws

Historical books online

• The Frontier Scouts by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1985. Also available Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

A book with a similar title is Frontier Scouts by Colonel H. R. C. Pettigrew. (Privately published) c 1964-1965. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002891865 . Elsewhere, the author was stated to be with the South Waziristan Scouts 1937-40.

• South Waziristan Scouts page 15 India in 1930-1931 Archive.org