rovided their members with protection, financial support, a means to resolve disputes, and punishment ... .
For Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group and the Taliban’s primary source of support, tribes are particularly important. Successfully turning ... ribes as inherently anachronistic, sexist and corrupt — a system that further undermines the already e
e in power. In both countries they introduced or supported Islamic punishments - such as public execut... clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Afgh... largely due to their success in stamping out corruption, curbing lawlessness and making the roads and
