The area is mostly populated by Pashtun tribesmen who have very conservative views toward women.
Local Pashtun activists say Karachi's largest party, the MQM, is behind most of the violence.
It has its own Pashtun community and wants the Pashtuns in Afghanistan to be as influential as possible.
Masri described his prison in Afghanistan as a filthy hole, with walls scribbled on in Pashtun and Arabic.
It's not well known, but Pashtun experts say the story is a kind of Romeo and Juliet tale.
Although a Pashtun, he had been a member in the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance.
K. with General Sher Mohammad Karimi, an ethnic Pashtun and an American favorite.
Reports suggest that he is lending his support to Hamid Karzai's campaign to rally southern Pashtun tribal leaders behind the exiled king.
Pakistan also wants a Pashtun-led government in Kabul and for the Taliban to have some representation in the south and the east.
We have to reach out to Pashtun tribes and others who do not ideologically align themselves with the Taliban or al Qaeda.
It is the city's Pashtun areas that have come under Taliban influence.
No Afghan government has yet accepted the border drawn by Britain in 1893 that runs through the middle of the Pashtun tribal belt.
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Karzai is a Pashtun, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, while his top opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, is half Pashtun and half Tajik, the second-largest ethnic group.
Zeb and Haniya are a living and vivid example of how much more there is to the Pashtun sensibility than the images of gun-toting renegades.
In recent years the Pashtun community in the city has grown, and they are seen as competition for land and jobs with the Urdu-speaking community.
Meaning corn flower in Urdu, the native language of the region, Gul Makai is a name taken from a character in a Pashtun folk story.
Some of his Pashtun friends had crossed over and never returned.
Afghanistan doesn't recognize the so-called Durand Line, the British-drawn boundary between the two countries that cuts through ethnic Pashtun lands, as an international frontier with Pakistan.
The code they espouse is a combination of Islamic puritanism and Pashtun custom, the basic tenets of which are honour, revenge and respect for private property.
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.
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.
Karzai, who fought the Soviet Union during their occupancy in the 1980s, returned to Afghanistan in October and rallied Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan to oppose the Taliban.
Karzai is, after all, a Pashtun and given the fact that Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group, the next president of Afghanistan almost certainly will be a Pashtun.
The British-drawn boundary between the two countries is disputed by Afghanistan, which doesn't recognize the so-called Durand Line that cuts through the ethnic Pashtun heartland as an international frontier.
The British-drawn boundary between the two countries is disputed by Afghanistan, which doesn't recognize as an international frontier the so-called Durand Line that cuts through the ethnic Pashtun heartland.
Dobbins' mission is to talk with Afghan groups as possible, the official said, adding after meeting with the king, Dobbins would travel to Peshawar, Pakistan, to meet with Pashtun leaders.
In that fractured, querulous, society religion and certain aspects of traditional culture (such as female purdah in the Pashtun areas) remain the great touchstones for generating fellow feeling or indeed outrage.
That is Pakistani Pashtun tribesmen living along the border with Afghanistan who have given shelter to Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban when they escaped from Afghanistan after the war ended in 2001.
Saddiq Zaman Khattack, a candidate for the Awami National Party, a secular party with a strong ethnic Pashtun support base, was shot and killed as he returned from Friday prayers, police said.
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