There are numerous different ethnic groups in the country, the largest of which are the Pashtuns, who make up the majority of the Taliban. Others, such as the Hazaras and the Tajiks (Marina Golbahari is Tajik, again according to the imdb) constitute significant minority populations. Areas with high minority populations tended to be more resistant to Taliban rule, to the point that active fighting continued throughout the 1990s until the US-led invasion in 2001. Another problem, which the film somewhat highlighted, is the damage that highly patriarchal societies can cause. to men as well as women. Osama's father, and indeed very many men, were expected to fight and died while doing so. This not only led to their deaths, but left their families defenseless. Boys were essentially conscripted into the ranks of the Taliban through religious indoctrination from primary school age. Additionally, with so many girls their age forced into marriage to much older men, leading to many boys entering adulthood without suitable romantic partners. Since sexually frustrated males are probably the easiest people to recruit into terrorist organizations, this causes serious problems in the future