Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.

Anglo-Afghan Wars may refer to:

• Expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani (1833–1834)
• First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842)
• Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)
• Hazara Expedition (1888)
• Chitral Expedition (1895)
• Tochi Expedition (1897–1898)
• Siege of Malakand (1897)
• Mohmand campaign (1897–1898)
• Tirah Campaign (1897–1898)
• Mahsud Waziri blockade (1900–1902)
• Operations in the Tochi (1914–1915)
• Operations against the Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis (1915)
• Mohmand blockade (1916–1917)
• Operations against the Mahsuds (1917)
• Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
• Waziristan Campaign (1919–1920)
• Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)
• Pink's War (1925)
• Mohmand Campaign (1935)
• Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)
• American-Afghan War
  • Operation Herrick
  • Operation Toral

Pashtuns, also known as Pakhtuns, Pukhtoons, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans until 1964, after the term's meaning had become a demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, regardless of their ethnic group, creating an Afghan national identity.

Fakir, faqeer, or faqīr, derived from faqr, is an Islamic term traditionally used for Sufi Muslim ascetics who renounce their worldly possessions and dedicate their lives to the worship of God. They do not necessarily renounce all relationships, or take vows of poverty, but the adornments of the temporal worldly life are kept in perspective. The connotations of poverty associated with the term relate to their spiritual neediness, not necessarily their physical neediness.

Sartōr Faqīr, also known as "Mullah Mastan or Mullah Mastana" Pipi Faqir or Saidullah in Pashto and by the British as "The Great Fakir" or "Mad Faqir", "Mad Faqir of Swat" or the "Mad Mullah", was a Pashtun tribal Yusufzai leader and freedom fighter. His name Mullah Mastan translates to "God-intoxicated" as a reference to his religious convictions and his belief that he was capable of miraculous powers and challenging the British Empire.