For them, Kabul, with its large Persian-speaking Tajik and Hazara community, comes as a culture shock.
At the blast site, members of the Hazara community helped authorities dig through rubble to find the dead or survivors.
Oxfam, which distributes food in Hazarajat, a central region populated mainly by the Shia Hazara minority, says little has arrived.
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The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says the group has in the past targeted the area's ethnic Hazara Shia.
Since 2001, the Hazara heartland in central Afghanistan has been among the country's most peaceful areas, largely untouched by the insurgency.
The man told me that he belonged to the Hazara ethnic group and had spent a couple of years in Iran.
Hazarajat, the Hazara-dominated central region (with Behsood district at its eastern extreme), is an area poor in resources with too many people.
The demand: The Hazara community called for two main things.
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Mr Ashraf was due to meet leaders of the city's Hazara community, to which many Shia belong, a senior government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Hazara girls have one of the highest high-school graduation rates in the country, and Hazara women have become some of the most visible symbols of the new Afghanistan.
But the Iranians have a particular concern - to protect their fellow Shia Muslims, the minority Hazara community who suffered worst of all at the hands of the Taleban.
But Hazara farmers in Behsood say that the Kuchis' own animals are stripping grasses that the locals need to cut and dry to keep their sheep and goats alive during harsh highland winters.
Mr Karzai is staying his hand only because the IEC balked at accepting the astonishing results from Ghazni, a Pushtun-majority constituency where preliminary counts gave all 11 seats to the Hazara ethnic minority.
Mr. Abdul Hameed Chitrali, Database Expert, Hazara University.
The four factions negotiating Afghanistan's political future sought to achieve a balance representing Afghanistan's main Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara ethnic groups -- and also women, who have been virtually excluded from public life under the Taliban.
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