liver a serious blow to the insurgency and potentially create a means of stabilizing the long-suffering... Pashtun heartland =====
The largest and traditionally most politically powerful ethnic group, the Pashtun (or Pakhtun in northern Pakhtu dialects), is comp... age & Culture =====
The Pashtun speak several mutually intelligible dialects of Pashtu; some also speak
required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka. The Taliban showed a similar disd... nfighting after the Soviets were driven out, generally welcomed the Taliban when they first appeared on
