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 ...

The Taliban are primarily-almost solely-a movement that draws itsleadership from among the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan. Acommon complaint from Pashtuns elsewhere is that the Taliban ...

Let's understand how. 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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan's demographics have fluctuated over the years as a result of refugee flows, but ethnic Pashtuns are presently thought to account for about 38 percent of the total population and ...

At the same time, a population of Pashtuns of Khyber has been demanding that the border with Afghanistan be kept open and easy to commute from there. They say that there are kinship on both sides ...

When the Americans accuse Pakistan of helping insurgents fight allied forces in Afghanistan, Khan 1.0 writes in 2011, they fail to understand the Pashtun mentality. This is one year after a major ...

Since the Taliban’s resurgence in 2021, South Asia has faced profound geopolitical shifts, revealing Taliban fractures and ...