====== The Pashtun Tribe ======
Tribes have existed for millennia in the area that is present-day Afghanistan. They emerged o... nded kinship lines. Led by councils of elders, tribes provided their members with protection, financial support, a means to resolve disputes, and punishme
ound guilty of theft.
Men were required to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka.... to school.
The Taliban in Afghanistan are still believed to be led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying for... for commerce to flourish.
Despite ever higher numbers of foreign troops, the Taliban have steadily ex
