following the Soviet withdrawal.
===== Pashtun heartland =====
The largest and traditionally most p... ic group of about 14 million.
The Afghan Pashtun heartland roughly covers a large crescent-shaped bel... and northward along the Iranian border almost to Herat. Enclaves of Pashtun also live scattered among... title of Durr-i-Durran (Pearl of Pearls) and was henceforth known as Ahmad Shah Durrani and his tribe
