pashtun

This particular standard is probably more related to Pashtun culture, or to their particular interpretation of Islam.

The Northern coalition in the Afghanistan civil war was composed of many ethnic groups fighting together against the Pashtun south.

Additionally: > Pashtun villages enforce a rigid gender segregation, confining women to the home in order to preserve the family’s honor.

Despite these efforts, the Taliban continued to gain strength and support from the Pashtun community.

They've embraced modern communication, dropped most of their Pashtun ethnic supremacy stuff and are a little less violent across the board.

My translator, a used-car salesman from Northern VA of Pashtun extraction, had trouble speaking to them -- they had a thick accent.

Afghanistan should be at least two states, not one, and Americans might have to recognize that the Taliban is the popular representative of the national will of the Pashtun people in the south.

The Pakistan Taliban has a pretty good reputation in the Pashtun regions.

Afghanistan won because the insurgents could be resupplied and given shelter by Pashtun pakistanis next door and because every part of the country is surrounded by mountains with very few, very easily disrupted mountain passes.

How many Pashtun residence of Paktia province do you know?

My family origins are from UP and Punjab, with Pashtun and Central Asian forebears as well as some European and African admixture once they got to USA.

I submit that there's a much greater cultural distance from modern England to modern Pashtun Afghanistan than to England of fifty years ago.

So, a Pashtun is "White" if they come from Afghanistan, but "Asian" if they come from Pakistan?

There is no "Afghan" people - there are Pashtun and Tajik and Uzbek[2].

In an ominous sign, no Pashtun will join the "national" Afghan army.

Also the point the author tries to make about "Pashtun honoring the living not the dead" is laughable and again shows the author's complete lack of cultural understanding.

> Richard Francis Burton was one of the first Europeans to visit Mecca while in disguise as a Pashtun.

Marcus Lutrell was saved by a local Pashtun.

The Taliban are native Afghanis, mostly Pashtun.