Taliban militants (file photo)
8am: Given the strong ethnic inclinations within the Taliban, their religious ideology has also taken on an ethnocentric hue. They are striving for the widespread promotion of the Pashto language and consider the Persian language, which historically served as a lingua franca facilitating understanding and communication among all the country’s inhabitants, as a foreign and secondary language. They seek to eradicate it from government offices, remove Persian-language signs, create official correspondences only in Pashto, and compel people to speak Pashto. On the other hand, the presence of other ethnicities in Taliban security forces is very rare, and if they are present, it is ineffective. Click here to read more (external link).
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