Here is a brief overview of the major ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s biggest ethnic group, making up more than 42 per cent of the population. The group -which is ...

The Tajiks are the principal ethnic group of Afghanistan’s northeast. Tajiks comprise about 25 to 30 percent of the population and are defined as Sunni Moslems who speak Dari, a derivative of Farsi.

While its membership is drawn from Afghanistan's major ethnic groups (Pashtun, Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek, and one religious minority, Shia), and it is led by the southern Pashtun leader Hamid ...

Northern Afghanistan, in contrast to the largely Pashtun south, is a complex ethnic mosaic. Groups with a long history of settlement in the region-Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras, Turkmen, and Persian ...

particularly Pakistanisand Arabs who care little more for Afghanistan’s Pashtun populationthan they do for any of the country’s other ethnic groups. Yet disaffected Pashtuns have been unable ...

The City of Dandenong has called in police amid a volatile dispute in the Afghan community over a push to change the name of ...

An ethnic Pashtun lobby in Pakistan's military and ... decentralized government in Afghanistan that respected the rights of all groups of Afghanistan's population and recognized the legitimate ...

These ethnic groups have long been marginalised ... which has supported non-Pashtun groups in Afghanistan as a counterbalance to Pakistan's influence. If India perceives Pakistan's engagement ...

TASS/. Moscow urges ethnic political groups in Afghanistan to refrain from activities triggering internal national conflict in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ...

The group has since been waging a campaign to force the military to leave the former tribal regions in the northwest that border Afghanistan. Ethnic Pashtuns live mainly in eastern and southern ...

Most members are Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has been the Taliban’s supreme leader since 2016. Reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar led the ...