The ethnic groups of the Afghans.

The questioner : The demographic and ethnic composition of the Afghan people. Briefly, the Afghan people are composed of many very complex ethnic groups, including the Pashtuns, the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Turkmens, the Hazaras who are the people of the Shi'ah, the Nuristanis who are of the lineage of Genghis Khan, the Pashai, and the Baloch. The largest of these groups are the Pashtuns, followed by the Tajiks. The Pashtuns are in the south and the Tajiks are in the north. If we want to understand the nature of the Afghan people, we must recall...

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The questioner : We do not enter into the secondary issues and we focus on the core of the subject so that we understand it, without [omission], while being convinced that the secondary issues are also important.