Their commander, Amanullah Terling, another former Jamiat commander, said that his men were protecting roads and development projects.

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Amanullah Khan has accused Ismail Khan, an ethnic Tajik, of denying roles to Pushtuns in his regional government.

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Ismail Khan, in turn, accuses Amanullah Khan of siding with the Taliban.

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Ismail Khan has accused his rival of allying himself with remnants of the ousted Taleban regime, while Amanullah Khan is pressing for Pashtun representation in Herat's government.

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His grandfather, he says, was a host of the country's reformist leader, King Amanullah Khan, after it gained independence from the British in 1919, and imported fuel, cooking oil, foods, technical equipment and construction materials from Iran and the Soviet Union.

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