http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/us-afghanistan-nightraids-idUSBRE83A0X620120411 Is this similar to the Cultural Support Teams that were fielded? I found this to be a interesting part of the article- "The program began two months ago and drew women from the Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen and Hazara ethnic groups, but not from the Pashtun where the Taliban recruit most of their fighters." Would a Pashtun woman resent or be offended by dealing with a Tajik or Hazara woman?
It's possible but you never truly know. Historically Pastun's and Tajik's hate each other, but some area's they just don't really care the people just wanna live their lives and might not even know a person was another afghan ethnicity unless they opened their mouth or it was blatantly obvious.
I always found it funny that in Helmand province the ANA at our base were Pashtuns yet a lot of em had background pic's on their cell phones or just pic's in general of Ahmed Sha Massoud and would say things like "Massound, double double good" despite him being a Tajik. He has become the icon/Che like image of that country.
That's interesting. Forgive my ignorance everyone, were there many/any Pashtuns fighting with the Northern Alliance?
Don't take my word as fact but from what I've read short answer in no. There was a lot of tribal mixing during the civil war there with factions/tribes going back and forth to the NA and Taliban side, but majority wise the NA was made up main of Tajik's, Uzbek's and the like while the Taliban was predominately pashto. Part of the harshness of the Taliban's strict rule during the time of power there wasn't just a interpretation of Islam but that of pashtuwalo (forgive me if I mis-spelled), which is the tribal honor system (or one of them anyway) of the southern Pashto's.
thanks for that Marauder. I was aware that the NA had a mixing of all the ethnicities in the country during their fight but predominately they were Tajik's, Uzbek's, etc while Taliban was predominately Pashto's
pretty much everyone's enemy is the pashtuns lol! well cept pakistan, but we know how that goes. anyway, I still find it funny that I'd run into ANA pashtu soldiers that had honest respect and admiration for Massaud.
