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Together with the adjacent provinces in Pakistan, these form what is sometimes called Pashtunistan, in reference to the ethnic group from which the Taliban sprang.
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The ethnic-Pashtun Taliban group operates on both sides of the Af-Pak border in what is sometimes called Pashtunistan, but it is not a monolith and depends on a wide variety of alliances with smaller groups that don't necessarily share in the fundamentalist zeal of the Taliban leadership.
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According to the scheme, "Pashtunistan" would be kept in line by armed drones and 30,000 to 40,000 U.S.
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A self-governing "Pashtunistan" inside Afghanistan could become a threat to the integrity of Pakistan, whose own 25 million Pashtuns might seek to break free to form a larger Pashtunistan.
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It succeeded in both aims – but the partition of "Pashtunistan", heartland of the Taliban, is now a major complicating factor in the security situation.
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It all but guaranteed a certain degree of success by the Taliban in all of "Pashtunistan," in Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan.
Josh Mull: Afghanistan: Has Hamid Karzai Already Joined the Taliban? 2010
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According to the scheme, "Pashtunistan" would be kept in line by armed drones and 30,000 to 40,000 U.S.
Conn Hallinan: Dismembering Afghanistan Conn Hallinan 2010
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"Pashtunistan" extends into Pakistan, and I doubt our indispensable allies there will be happy with any such solution.
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Among the top U.S. priorities Riedel has identified: the shutting down of safe havens in "Pashtunistan" border region and the fighting of corruption in the Karzai government.
At The End Of The Road There’s Someone Waiting For Me | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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Despite presence of strong pockets of pro-Afghan communists like ANP who constantly demanded "Pashtunistan", the tribals never saw any cause to rise in an uprising against any Pakistani government.
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