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In recent weeks he gave telephone interviews to reporting, asserting that the American bombing raids were backfiring and making it harder to turn the Pashtun against the Taliban.

In the nineteen-nineties, following the pull-out of the Soviet Union, Afghanistan descended into a horrific civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and largely pitted the Pashtuns against the Tajiks and Afghanistan's other minorities like the Uzbeks and Hazaras.

The World Cup is a prime target Russia has its own odious opinion of jihadists, fostered since 1978, when jihadists aided Afghan Pashtuns against the Communist government in Kabul.

He began making phone calls and sending out messages to rally Pashtun leaders against the Taliban.

The documentary reveals that Ziauddin chose his daughter's name in honour of Malalai of Maiwand, a heroine who rallied the Pashtun army against British troops in 1880.

He named her after the Afghan folk heroine Malalai – a Joan of Arc figure who rallied Pashtun fighters against the British in 1880.

Within Afghanistan the war i s viewed primarily as a Pashtun rebellion against President Hamid Karzai's regime, which has empowered three other ethnic groups – the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras – to a degree that Pashtuns resent.

General Beg and other experts said that they fear the resumption of a civil war pitting the Taliban and allies within the Pashtun tribe against the Northern Alliance and warlords backing them.

A key factor helping the Taliban is the moral outrage of the Pashtun tribes against those who deny them autonomy, including a right to bear arms to defend their tribal code, known as Pashtunwali.

Successfully turning Pashtun tribes against the Taliban — or perhaps families or sub-tribes if they deal with the government on their own — could deliver a serious blow to the insurgency and potentially create a means of stabilizing the long-suffering country.

Britain unseated Amanullah Khan, the Afghan King who showed too much independence in the 1920s, by inciting conservative Pashtun tribes against him.