Mariam, is an ethnic Tajik born in Herat, 1959.

An ethnic Tajik, he had won the trust of some members of other ethnic groups, a rare feat in fractured Afghanistan.

Upon his election to the Jogorku Kenesh in 2010, he became the first ethnic Tajik to sit in that body.

As an ethnic Tajik, he said he went easy on the locals, who were largely from his own ethnic group.

An ethnic Tajik, he has also been at war with other Afghan guerrillas, their ethnicities different from his and their loyalties notably fluid.

He was an ethnic Tajik and native of Kalakan, a village thirty kilometers north of Kabul.

"People left more polarized," said a senior official who is an ethnic Tajik.

Farhâdi is an ethnic Tajik from Kabul.

He is an ethnic Tajik.

While alliance officials portray the general, who was ethnic Tajik, as a unifying force, many Pashtuns despised him.