Chapters 1-5

Pashtun, Sunni, Wealthy, Educated

Leader should be elected from among those capable of the job

Eastern-Iranian; Sunni; Pashtunwali Ethnic Code

Hazara, Shi'a, Servant, Illiterate

Leadership should have stayed within the Prophet's own family

Eastern Eurasian; Persian; Shi'a

Capital; Strategic location; Soviet presence; Civil War

King Zahir Shah; famine; gap between Kabul and rural areas