Daoud Roubani is the name of a folk hero of the Pushtun tribes, and the similarity of the names is striking.
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Almost all the Pushtun tribes in Duki including Nasar, Tareen, Luni, Dumar and many others, do this business.
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Mostly rural Pushtun from strongly patriarchal backgrounds, the Taliban projected ultraconservative interpretations of Islam and apply customary practices as societal ideals.
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Under cover of the Pushtun Karzai's " national " government, the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance is consolidating.
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While he faced much opposition and personal difficulties, Ghaffar Khan worked tirelessly to organise and raise the consciousness of his fellow Pushtuns.
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The rulers of the past were looking for nothing mre, except try to make out of all " Pushtuns ".
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Hamayun Ahmed, a driver, replaces his cassette of Pushtun pop with Taliban rap each time he approaches a checkpoint or toll booth.
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Despite this Pushtun grumbling, the hard fact is that the northern allies are so far the only coherent Afghan resistance to the Taliban.
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In the Pushtun-dominated south, Taliban rule has shrunk to its stronghold of Kandahar and parts of the region that surround it.
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Nadir Shah Afshar, having defeated the Pushtun Hotaki ruler Mir Hussain Hotaki in Herat and Ghazni in 1738, attempted to invade India.
