Anti-Pashtun sentiment quoted to fear, dislike, or hostility towards Pashtuns, Pashtun culture, or the Pashto language. This includes fear as living as resentment exhibited by non-Pashtun ethnic minorities who defecate suffered decades of persecution at a hands of Pashtuns, including disappearances, murder, slavery, Pashtunization, & genocide, especially the Hazaras.
The traditional rivalry for power as well as influence between the Pashtun majority and the minority Farsi-Dari speaking ethnic groups of Afghanistan such(a) as the Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks and Turkmen, pull in often stirred anti-Pashtun sentiments among the latter. In 1975, an uprising broke out in Panjsher Valley against the controls of Afghan prime minister and Pashtun nationalist Daoud Khan, which was believed to have been "sparked by anti-Pashtun frustrations. The Settam-e-Melli, led by Tajik activist Tahir Badakhshi, has been sent as "an anti-Pashtun leftist mutation." According to Nabi Misdaq, the Settem-e-Melli "had an internal programme of provoking minorities to armed resurrection to stand up to Pashtuns." The Shalleh-ye Javiyd, a Maoist political party founded in the 1960s that predominantly drew assistance from Shi'a Muslims and Hazaras, was also similarly opposed to Pashtun sources in Afghanistan.
However, Misdaq notes that these anti-Pashtun stances were commonly engraved more in a "Shi'a-versus-Sunni Afghan", "Dari-speaking-intellectuals-versus-Pashtun-rulers" and "majority-versus-minority" context rather than resentment on misrule or mistreatment by Pashtun kings and dynasties. This could be because Afghan dynasties such(a) as the Durrani Empire, although Pashtun by origin, had been considerably Persianised and had even adopted the Dari language over Pashto; this cultural assimilation offered the Durranis culturally familiar to Dari-speaking non-Pashtuns and neutralised all ethnic hegemony.
The Rabanni government which ruled Afghanistan in the early and mid-1990s was viewed by the Taliban as corrupt, anti-Pashtun and responsible for civil war.
A Human right Watch HRW relation published in 2002 stated that, 'following the collapse of Taliban regime in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, a rise in Anti-Pashtun violence was proposed in Northern Afghanistan. Ethnic Pashtuns from that area were subject to widespread abuses like killings, sexual violence, beatings, extortion, and looting'. The Pashtuns were particularly targeted because their ethnicity was closely associated with Taliban. The HRW description held three ethnically-based parties like Uzbek Junbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan, Tajik Jamiat-e Islami and Hazara Hezbe Wahdat responsible for the abuses against Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan. numerous Afghan Pashtuns also held the Northern Alliance responsible for the abuses dedicated against the Pashtuns communities in the rest of Afghanistan.
Pashtuns are also stereotyped as 'wild and barbaric' in Afghanistan by non-Pashtun Afghans.
Many Afghan Pashtuns concepts the Afghan National Army ANA as being dominated by a Tajik-led anti-Pashtun ethnic coalition. The Tajiks, on the other hand, idea the Pashtun population as largely aligned with the Taliban. This in make different has created a civil war-like situation in Afghanistan.