In 1893 the British Foreign Secretary of India, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand cut their homeland, of over four hundred years, in two.

Today the Taliban almost entirely cull their support from the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan who number 40 million in total. Twelve to fifteen million are in Afghanistan, while 28 million live in Pakistan. War and anarchy created 2.5 million refugees. Afghan President, Hamid Karzai is an ethnic Pashtun.

Pashtun Origins

During the 16th and 17th centuries Pashtun tribes and clans migrated across the Hindu Kush, seeking safe haven from the Uzbeks, Tajiks, Turkomen, and Hazara who fought and populated the lands north of the Hindu Kush and into Transoxiana. Pashtun tribes streamed into southern Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan, where they settled and gained collective political and tribal strength over the next three hundred years.

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