In Afghanistan, certain people are usually giving specific perspectives to objections, having links with ethnic and other issues. It is not important. ... Afghanistan- Afghan Nomads: ...

He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan. He also writes the Azadi Briefing , a weekly newsletter that unpacks the key issues in ...

Some liken it to two brothers fighting over table scraps. Others believe the problem run much deeper, cutting along ethnic and sectarian lines - similar to disputes in other parts of the world ...

Afghanistan’s kochis: Nomads no more. ... who are mostly ethnic Pashtuns, ... “If an Afghan is not part of Afghanistan then give us our passports to go to Pakistan or Iran,” says Haji Ghondai.

Most of Afghanistan’s Kuchis come from the country’s largest ethnic groups, the Pashtuns. Parts of more than one dozen tribes of the Ghilzai confederacy are considered nomadic. Wars, modernity, ...

Thirty years ago, the dwelling would have been luxurious. But today, between walls damaged by artillery blasts and under collapsing ceilings, over 1,000 nomads from Afghanistan’s south are preparing ...

When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Kuchis arguably suffered more than anyone else as they were without shelter and constantly found themselves amid the fighting. The lifestyle of the ...

Adam Khan Nasiri was a member of a delegation of nomads at Afghanistan's recent loya jirga, the grand council that produced the country's new constitution. President Hamid Karzai signed the new ...

Faizullah, a resident of Qush Tepa, says Pashtun nomads with the help of the Taliban seized more than 20,000 acres of their land. “Nobody could resist,” he says.

The nomadic Kuchi are being driven from their lands, says Karlos Zurutuza. They’re second-class citizens in their own country.

KABUL, July 22 (Reuters) - More than 10,000 ethnic Hazaras protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, calling for President Hamid Karzai to resign over killings of their kin by rival Kuchi nomads ...