Accepted Quote by Noam Chomsky

We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you…

— Ahmed Rashid

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

— Hillary Clinton

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

— Stephen Kinzer

The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their region with…

— Ahmed Rashid

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

— Philip Hammond

What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be…

— Ahmed Rashid

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

— Stephen Kinzer

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

— Hamid Karzai

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

— George W. Bush

“We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.”

— Malala Yousafzai

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the…

— Sergei Ivanov

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

— Sushmita Banerjee