Central Asia's moderate Islamic republics, and even Russia and Iran, are already providing material support to General Dostam. He believes that, faced with the prospect of having the Taliban for neighbours, they will react decisively. I think if the Taliban unite with the Tajikistan opposition, the Central Asian states like Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, they may invite the Russians back, just as the Tajikistan government has done. All these central Asian states, none of them can keep quiet in this, including Russia. Tha Taliban aim to rule all these places.
Ethnicity can unite as well as divide.
The love song of refugee musician Amir Mohammed begins in Tajik, but ends in Pashtun. Plagued by foreign inteference , the Afghans have been, but in the final analysis it's for them to decide whether their ethnic complexity becomes a force for bonding their nation, or a force for destroying it.