Following the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, whispers of internal rifts in the group over power were heard. Clashes between the two main Pashtun factions in the Taliban and the absence of ...

The word “Afghan” comes from “Pashtun,” and “stan” means “land.” Therefore, Afghanistan is often referred to as the “Land of the Pashtuns.” In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani unified ...

The Pashtun Stew So if not through ... safe haven for binLaden, money and men for the Taliban. Pakistani Motivations The aspect of contemporary Afghanistan that is perhaps the mostdangerously ...

But many Pashtun men perceive that their manhood and very ... was compiled by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, a celebrated Afghan poet and writer assassinated while in exile in Pakistan in 1988.

Abdul Rashid Dostum; the Hazara Hizb-i Wahdat with its stronghold in the central mountainous region of the country known as Hazarajat; and the predominantly Pashtun Hizb-i Islami of Gulbuddin ...

The Afghan T20I captain and his brothers Amir Khalil, Zakiullah and Raza Khan, were all married on the same day in a ...

“The Taliban wants to remove the stigma that it is being used by Pakistan,” said Afrasiab Khattak, a Pakistani Pashtun nationalist leader. But options for the Afghan Taliban to confront ...