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| | Aimak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | They live in western Hazarajat in the provinces of, Farah, Herat, Badghis,, and. |
 | | They were originally known as chahar (the four) Eimaks, because there were four principal tribes: the (the predominating element in the population of), the, the, and the. |
 | | Playing on this, successive Afghan governments (usually dominated by the ethnic Pushtuns) divided the Aimaks and the Hazaras politically, listing them as separate nationalities in the list of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan, thereby reducing the Hazara population in the national percentage. |
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