On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> [The Taliban's] hard core grew up in refugee camps in Pakistan - a
> kind of foreignness in itself, even if they were ethnically Pashtun.
Not to them. As I understand it, for the Pashtuns and the "tribals," the border has always (except maybe the last two months) been irrelevant to their consciousness and their everyday existence (except for tax smuggling purposes). They've always travelled across as if it weren't there.
Michael
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