Recent clashes between nomadic Pashtun and Hazara tribes in central Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen Hazaras, hundreds of livestock and ruined crops just before the long winter months. The conflict is over the Hazara attempt to reclaim rights to their ancestral lands used by nomads for grazing and watering their livestock. As a result, the number of nomads in Afghanistan has dropped from 2 million to tens of thousands in the past 30 years.

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