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Originally Posted by joea
some interesting conversations with an Afghan neighbour in residence in Ottawa where I did my M.A. :hmm:
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Ha, I can imagine... All in all, Pakistani in general are not popular in Afghanistan, maybe with some Pushtun tribes only (who accepted there assistance during the Soviet era, and also accepted the Taleban), but that's it. To say that the majority of the other ethnicites is hostile towards Pakistan is no exaggeration - they have triggered some conspiracies too much in the past. The Soviet war has cut some deep wounds, and which side one has choosen in the past is probably not forgotten. Unfortunetaly, alliances in Afghanistan do not tell a history of holding long.
If you are no Afghan, you are an outsider anyway. Afghans, and in a way also the Persians, do not compare to the other Islamic huge ethnicities in the world.