Village men mostly former local Taliban, or members of the Hezb-i-Islami group of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar say they rose up against harsh new edicts by Taliban commanders who moved here this year from Pakistani madrassas, banning government education and imposing a more austere brand of Islam that defied local customs.
The Andar uprising erupted in summer 2012, after local Taliban militants such as Mr. Rahmatullah who spent 2007 to 2010 at the U.S. detention facilityin Bagram and fighters of the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group grew increasingly frustrated with more senior Taliban commanders, many of them outsiders who had moved into the district.