Interesting! Thank you for the explanation - the time gap had always felt a bit strange to me, but I had hand-wavingly assumed that was time the displaced youths had needed to grow up.
Do you have additional sources to dive into? I must admit, I had been under the impression so far, that the Taliban had been composed mostly of Pashtuns originally from Afghanistan, and not Pakistani Pashtuns at all.
Interesting! Thank you for the explanation - the time gap had always felt a bit strange to me, but I had hand-wavingly assumed that was time the displaced youths had needed to grow up.
Do you have additional sources to dive into? I must admit, I had been under the impression so far, that the Taliban had been composed mostly of Pashtuns originally from Afghanistan, and not Pakistani Pashtuns at all.
https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/cscoal/2001/en/52887
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/pakistan/alliance.html
Thank you!