Professor Durrani is Research Professor at the University of Strathclyde, having joined the University in 1976.
Since the 18th century, supremacy has been held almost continuously by the Durrani tribal federation.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a Durrani, hasn't helped matters by failing to bring the Ghilzai into his government.
General Mahmud Ali Durrani, ambassador to Washington until 2008, thinks the problem is that neither side speaks frankly.
Mahmud Durrani, the Pakistan ambassador to the United States, said Pakistan remains "fully committed" to the war on terrorism.
Durrani says Afghanistan and its Western partners should look at their own conduct.
Home Secretary Akbar Durrani told AFP the bombings were in an area dominated by the minority Shia Muslim community.
Mr. NUSRAT DURRANI (General Manager, MTV World): We are at a moment in time where young Asian-Americans want to see themselves.
Mahmud Durrani, a former Pakistani general and a past ambassador to Washington during the era of strongman Pervez Musharraf, backs up the charge.
Mahmud Durrani, who served as national-security adviser in the PPP government.
They are grouped around the city's most famous monument, the blue domed mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani - the 17th century ruler who founded modern Afghanistan.
As Afghanistan analyst Ann Marlowe tells us, most of the Taliban come from the Ghilzai tribe, which has historically been at loggerheads with the Pashtun Durrani tribe.
Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, agreed.
"There is a need for a real assessment of the situation after seven years, and we should be seriously thinking and going back to the drawing board, " Durrani says.
That angered both non-Durranis and some smaller Durrani tribes.
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