Likewise we label Pashtun armies as "Taliban" to make the war look winnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

The entire idea of invading Pakistan is patently ridiculous, even though the necessity of a massive intervention of forces in Pashtun seems entirely necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now There’s A Unilateral Invasion I Could Live With « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

The Pashtun were the dominant force when the Taliban were the central government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Arms | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

Are there large numbers of the so-called Pashtun, the dominant ethnic group, who are not part of the Taliban?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001] Reference

QUESTION: Except that the organization, the Pashtun, which is the largest ethnic organization, is the Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001] Reference

BLITZER: So you think it would be a mistake for the Northern Alliance to go into Kandahar, where are the Pashtun are the most secure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2001] Reference

Often described as Pashtun nationalists, this hardline religious and political movement would govern Afghanistan ruthlessly for the next five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cedric Perrier: Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War?] Reference

It's a very confusing situation down in Kandahar, because remember, Kandahar is the Pashtun area and the Pashtun are the major source of support for the Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2001] Reference

A chieftain in the Popolzai tribe, Karzai was a prominent leader in Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtun, which is also the social base of the Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

That there is a kind of Pashtun - led opposition to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2009] Reference

Two years ago, their strategy depended on being seen as some kind of Pashtun national liberation army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taliban's suicide bombing campaign] Reference

The prime anger was against Pakistan for suddenly reversing its policy against Taliban and assisting U.S. in "Pashtun" slaughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waziristan Factor] Reference

Pashtun is the equivalent ethnicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Taliban Spreading] Reference

But even among the Pashtun, Taliban support is dwindling.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Please Don't Forget Us'] Reference

Pashtun tribal politics were Kravtsov's specialty, and the bane of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From the Soviets] Reference

He may believe they can help shore up his ties to other Pashtun tribal leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Please Don't Forget Us'] Reference

Pacha Khan Zadran, a Pashtun warlord from eastern Afghanistan went even further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squabbling Over The Next Step] Reference

But capturing the predominantly Pashtun south is likely to be far more difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Win In The Fog Of War] Reference

Those alliances put Karzai, the scion of a Pashtun tribal leader, in a strong position.    From Wordnik.com.  [All for Nothing] Reference

That light touch should serve Karzai well in his dealings with non-Pashtun leaders, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Conciliator] Reference

But elements inside the Pashtun diaspora are now cultivating a violent hostility toward the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Afghan War Comes Home] Reference

Ghorbandarrah, a smaller village of mostly Pashtun herdsmen who eke out a living on the high pastures, is Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale Of Two Villages] Reference

The Pashtun tribes have turned against the Army, not for religious reasons but out of revenge for casualties inflicted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imran Khan: Better A ‘Bad Democrat’] Reference

Dallah says his father isn't religious but "admires Islamic teaching" and is deeply rooted in rural Pashtun traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Mujahed] Reference

A few Qaeda operatives die, but public support for the battle against extremism drops in the vital Pashtun areas of Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Live With Radical Islam] Reference

To do that he needs to make some headway with the non-Pashtun communities that are loyal to the various mujahedin chieftains.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRIKING A BARGAIN] Reference

Like many Pashtun parents, Dallah's father considered it an honor to send one of his sons to a madrasa, a fundamentalist academy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Mujahed] Reference

He has continued to tolerate Pashtun warlords who were toppled by the puritanical Taliban in the 1990s for their rampant misrule.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Violent Wake-Up Call] Reference

In most of the Pashtun-dominated south and east of the country, the interim administration has little ability to enforce disarmament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ways Of A Warlord] Reference

Zeb & Haniya's brand of folksy music draws on that Pashtun heritage and can easily fit into the province's longstanding Sufic tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Love Of Pashtun Music] Reference

For 40 years, Shaukat Khan has made a modest income singing and dancing to traditional Pashtun music at weddings and family celebrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan: A Growing 'Talibanization'] Reference

Mostly because of security issues, ethnic Pashtun farmers have seen little construction of roads, irrigation canals, clinics and schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Violent Wake-Up Call] Reference

Moscow grafted a veneer of communism onto a narrow, repressive, and widely hated Pashtun tribal clique that was no match for the mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From the Soviets] Reference