There is probably a fair amount of informal "score settling" going on in the chaos (Reply #1)

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Sat Aug 21, 2021, 08:38 AM

Klaralven (7,510 posts)

1. There is probably a fair amount of informal "score settling" going on in the chaos

In the Pashtunwali code, justice is basically meted out through revenge and vendetta. If someone is killed, their kinsmen are obliged to kill the the perpetrator.

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Afghanistan reports of torture and killing contradict Taliban's promises [View all]	Soph0571	Aug 2021	OP
There is probably a fair amount of informal "score settling" going on in the chaos	Klaralven	Aug 2021	#1
But no surprise of course n/t	Passenger	Aug 2021	#2

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