eption that in attempting to nationalize land and wealth, as well as regulate marriage practices, the DRA was unlawfully violating the prescriptions of [[... ic of Afghanistan (DRA) after 1978, although most were essentially detribalized because of their close... stan, established by the mujahadeen whose leaders were mostly from the Ghilzai, and a variety of easte
amputations of those found guilty of theft.
Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka. The Taliban showed a similar ... forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Afghans, weary of the mujahideen's excesses and infighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when
