New Delhi: Ethnic has been in the center of Afghan political conflict for decades, and the same thing is expected to be a factor when the new government is formed.
Some ethnic minorities, who reject subordination to Pashtuns and Taliban, want a fair representation.
However, Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group and also the core support base of the Taliban, once again expected to rotate in a new scheme.
They traditionally dominate Afghan politics since the 18th century.
Even two presidents under the previous government supported by US – Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Gohani are Pashtuns.
Tajik was the second largest ethnic group, and speaking Farsi dialect called from, also Lingua Franca from Afghanistan.
Although not dominant politically, a number of leading Tajik leaders have emerged in the past few decades.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, a Tajik, served as President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 before Kabul fell to the Taliban.
Abdullah Abdullah, former chief executive and major peace negotiator for the previous Afghan regime, was a mixture of mixed pashtun-tajik but widely considered the last.
Hazaras is mainly based in Central Afghanistan.
They speak dialects from and most of Shiite Muslims.
Most of Shias, they are often targeted by their religious beliefs.
They also suffered from massacres in various Afghan governments in recent decades, but especially under the Taliban-Hardine Sunni Muslims who usually label Shias’s thus.
Uzbek Afghanistan is the Turks and especially Sunni Muslims.
The most famous, and famous Uzbek, Afghanistan is the warlord of Abdul Rashid Dostum, who fought the Soviets against the rebels before changing the sides and effectively established his own fort based in the northern city of Mazar-I-Sarif.
He was a leading figure in the northern alliance which helped end the Taliban government after the US invasion of 2001, and then joined the Ghani government as the first vice president.
The 2004 Afghan constitution officially recognizes more than a dozen ethnicities.
In addition to the four largest groups, Aimanq Nomaden, Turkmen and Baloch are also registered.
Also included are Nuristan people in northeast Afghanistan, who were forcibly converted to Islam in the 19th century.
(With agency input)
Ethnicity is a factor in forming a new Afghan government
