But many Pashtun men perceive that their manhood and very ... was compiled by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, a celebrated Afghan poet and writer assassinated while in exile in Pakistan in 1988.

Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Taliban through a topographically, ethnically and geo-politically distinct space: the Pashtun Borderland of today's Afghanistan and ...

She was an experienced Washington Post war correspondent and he was a decorated Green Beret, known as 'Lawrence of Afghanistan' for his ability to rally the local Pashtun tribes to his side.

Muslim men can be permitted by religion to have ... funds to pay a "bride price" - a practice in force in many Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan by which money is given to a woman's ...

Representatives of four Afghan rival factions signed an agreement ... The interim administration will be headed by a Pashtun leader, Hamid Karzai, and will take power in Kabul on 22 December ...