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For Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group and the Taliban’s primary source of support, trib... nd traditionally most politically powerful ethnic group, the Pashtun (or Pakhtun in northern Pakhtu diale... ated 10.1 million in 1995). The most numerous sub-groups being the Durrani and the Ghilzai. Like a number of other Afghan ethnic groups, the Pushtun extend beyond Afghanistan into Paki