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Fri. November 20, 2009

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Similarly, while Pushtun nationalists wanted to take on the militants early on, they had to relent because some groups in Islamabad were dissatisfied, ...
Yes, both Karzai and ANP clan are a peer in one commonality: both have betrayed traitorously the Pakhtuns. He colluded with Tajiks and all other minorities ...
In his words: The Pashtun insurgency, which is composed of multiple, seemingly infinite, local groups, is fed by what is perceived by the Pashtun people as ...
The Pashtuns saw the project as a way to tell their story and improve their image in the west, which has been tarnished by association with terrorism and ...
Mohammed Nabi, 52, runs a small oil, rice and flour shop on the edge of Kabul in a Pashtun neighborhood. While many Pashtuns are willing to give Mr. Karzai ...
In Afghanistan, the majority Pushtuns were pushed against the wall and the result was that after eight years the US, NATO and Afghan forces could not ...
The majority Pashtuns - 50 percent of the population - resent the army and accuse foreigners of arming terrorists. 4. Simply put, the Pentagon is ...
Under the Pashtun code, if an elder walks you through the town's main road, he is offering his protection. In the throes of the Taliban insurgency, ...
While the Taliban are largely Pashtuns, the north is populated by other ethnic groups: Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara and Turkmen. The Hazara, who are mostly ...
There is an important point to be made here: while the Taliban fighting the US-led forces in Afghanistan enjoy the support of most Pashtuns, those who ...
(2) With "multiple, seemingly infinite, local groups," the insurgency "is fed by what is perceived by the Pashtun people as a continued and sustained ...
Crude ethnic breakdowns (Pashtun, Tajiks, Hazaras, Turkmen, Uzbeks and others) mask baffling complexity; there are 60 Pashtun tribes and a further 400 ...
About half of Afghanistan's population is Pashtun, from which the Taliban draw their strength. Much of the country's non-Pashtun population ardently opposes ...
... President Hamid Karzai - who the White House did not want to see reelected - and look to build relationships with Pashtun tribes in the combat zones. ...
Gilmour went in on his own, relying instead on pashtunwali, the complicated tribal code used by Pashtuns which dictate that a guest who is invited in must ...
The decision of the central government to oblige the sugar mills to supply 30% of sugar out of their produce to the government on 40 rupees/KG is somewhat ...
Most Pakistani Taliban fighters are ethnic Pashtuns from northwestern regions on the Afghan border. They support the Afghan Taliban, most of whom are also ...
While Khattak is forced to remain in the US for fear of the Taliban, Pashtuns in Pakistan are increasingly opting to migrate to America to ensure their ...
Allowing the Pashtuns to do as they wished in the desolate mountains of Afghanistan was one thing. Tolerating attacks by these people on areas under British ...
... that they had averted, for now, street protests by Dr Abdullah's supporters, which would have risked political violence and open Pushtun-Tajik rivalry.
While Khattak is forced to remain in the US for fear of the Taliban, Pashtuns in Pakistan are increasingly opting to migrate to America to ensure their ...
We need a Pashtun leader in Afghanistan. It's 60 percent of the population, 100 percent of the insurgency. Is he the best Pashtun leader we could have? ...
By Bureau report Peshawar: Pakistan People's Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) provincial president Sikandar Sherpao has said that Pakhtuns
"The US military presence in Afghanistan greatly contributes to the legitimacy and strategic message of the Pashtun insurgency," he says. ...
The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun
"It's a Pashtun
Like the residents of Swat, the Mahsud are Pashtuns
McChrystal remains bemused about why, in Afghanistan, most young Pashtuns decide to become Taliban. Because Kabul is immensely corrupt; ...
Abdullah apparently understood that with winter coming on, and Karzai's Pashtun majority behind him, the runoff â€Â" fair or not â€Â" was a futile effort. ...
In the Pashtun
McChrystal remains bemused about why, in Afghanistan, most young Pashtuns
Abdullah apparently understood that with winter coming on, and Karzai's Pashtun
Tribal Pashtuns (from eastern Afghanistan to western Pakistan) have never given up on being united again. Everyone familiar with AfPak knows the region is ...
Karzai today is just another Babrak Karmal; -- Stop treating terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan as only a "Pakhtun
FA: You are known to be a rather temperamental character, and some attribute this to you being a Pashtun
The CIA can train the Pashtun
It is this latter group that supports the Pashtun
It would also permit attacks on any al Qaeda or other Islamic extremist groups in the Pashtun


 


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