"Mutmaeen says the episode generated some goodwill between the Taliban and the Hazaras. But the Taliban fighters active here come from various regions and ethnic groups of Afghanistan. For nearly 18 years, Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban movement largely refrained from attacking the country’s predominately Shi’ite Hazara minority.But the Taliban recently began targeting Hazara-inhabited regions in the central provinces of Uruzgan and Ghazni. A total of around 300 ANP and 160 ANA forces were sent to the area, mainly from Bamian province, but they seem to keep a low profile, and finding themselves outnumbered by the Kuchi fighters, who are estimated by various sources as being between 500 and 1000, have till recently avoided taking any steps to enforce the withdrawal of nomads. Since the last eight years there have been attempts on part of the Kuchis to regain access to their traditional summer pastures in central Hazarajat, especially in the Waras, Panjab and Yakaolang districts of Bamian province. Houses were burnt down, people and animals killed, many fled the area. This is why the Taliban first attacked Shujae and then extended their fighting into Malistan and Jaghori districts in [neighboring Ghazni Province],” he said.The fighting is tinged by ethnic tensions as many Taliban leaders and cadres are ethnic Pashtuns. As an Afghan American I can say that we do not have any issues with any of the ethnic groups that exists in Afghanistan. I have friends that are Tajik, Hazara and Pashtun and we get along just fine in America. The Hazaras have been discriminated against for centuries. The Afghans were divided into numerous ethnic groups, of which the largest were the Pashtuns, the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, and the Hazaras, who were all in their turn divided into numerous tribes and clans. “The truth is that justice is in the hands of the Taleban, job opportunities are in the hands of the Taleban, three of the main roads leading to the district are in the hands of Taleban… No, our wuluswal must have good relations with the Taleban; in case Taleban are not happy with one wuluswal, in the span of one year they have him killed, he would not last more than that.”So, apart from a hypothetical vengeance, what would the Taleban gain by militarily supporting the Kuchis? Pashtuns vs. Hazaras Throughout The Kite Runner, the reader is exposed to the relationships between Pashtuns and Hazaras. The history between Hazaras and Pashtuns has been very rough. The Hazaras would receive support from some non-Pashtun actors inside and outside of the current unity government. Amir and Baba are Pashtuns while Ali and Hassan are Hazaras. On one hand, Kuchis possess grazing rights on pasture lands up in Hazarajat that were bestowed on them by Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan, after the ‘Hazara wars’(*) of 1891-1893. “They largely avoided interfering in each other’s affairs during all these years.”Interviews with several Ghazni residents established that under such an understanding the Taliban allowed schools, other government institutions, services, and projects to function unhindered in Hazara communities while preventing them from operating in Pashtun-populated regions.But Hazara lawmaker Arif Rahmani, a representative of Ghazni in the Afghan Parliament, rejected the claim that his community had ever concluded a deal with the Taliban.“There has never been any written or unwritten agreement or understanding between the Taliban and the Hazaras,” he told Radio Free Afghanistan.
As Pashtun, Amir and Baba enjoyed a privileged life while Ali and Hassan, as Hazara, served them.
To support their claims, the Taliban have recruited disgruntled ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks. The insurgents have also taken visible steps to ease Hazara fears that the hard-line Islamist movement has an anti-Shi’ite agenda.In 2015, Taliban militants killed dissident Taliban commander Mansoor Dadullah.
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