====== The Pashtun Tribe ======
Tribes have existed for millennia in the area that is present-day Afghanistan. They emerged over centuries in various sections of the country, taking form along extended kinship lines.
====== Who Are the Taliban ======
this is mostly from a BBC report, but I have edited it a little.
The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A predom
