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The '''jezail''' or ''jezzail'' ({{lang-ps|جزائل}}, ultimately from the plural form {{lang-ar|جزایل}}, "long [barrels]") is a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade long arm commonly used in [[South Asia]] and parts of the [[Middle East]] in the past. It was popular amongst the [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] tribesmen, who deposed [[Shah Shujah Durrani|Shah Shuja]].<ref name="1966-08-26-12">{{Cite web|title='Ko-i-Staun Foot Soldiery in Summer Costume, Actively employed among the Rocks' {{!}} Online Collection {{!}} National Army Museum, London|url=https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1966-08-26-12|access-date=2020-08-29|website=collection.nam.ac.uk}}</ref> Jezails were primarily used in the [[First Anglo-Afghan War|First]] and [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]s by [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] tribesmen.