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That triggered renewed U.S. engagement in the Pashtun heartland, including areas north of Kandahar. A major American military offensive was launched in 2010 in Marja, to the west of Kandahar in ...

(Reuters) – Kandahar, the southern city which fell to the Taliban on Thursday, is Afghanistan’s second largest city, a major economic hub and one of the keys to overall control of the country.

Kandahar Province, the main city in Afghanistan’s ethnic Pashtun heartland in the south, was the birthplace of the Taliban during the country’s civil war in the 1990s.

Later, when the Taliban emerged in Kandahar in 1994, one reason why Pakistan supported them was because of their predominantly Pashtun ethnicity.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns to voice anger over the detention of an ethnic Pashtun rights activist in Pakistan.

The post-2001 generation make up around half of Afghanistan’s 33 million population, but their voices have been largely absent as the prospects for peace with the Taliban rise.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Parliamentarian Khalid Pashtun says Kandahar police chief, governor and intelligence chief killed in attack by guards.