There are a number of different ethnic groups in the country, the largest being the Pashtuns, who make up the bulk of the Taliban's membership. Others, like the Hazara and the Tajiks (Marina Golbahari is Tajik, again according to the Imdb) constitute significant minority populations. Areas with large minority populations tended to be more resistant to Taliban rule, to the point that active fighting continued throughout the 1990s until the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. Another problem, which the film touched on to some extent, is about the damage that highly patriarchal societies can cause. to both men and women. Osama's father, along with a large number of men, were supposed to fight and died doing so. This not only led to their deaths but also left their families helpless. Boys were mainly recruited into the ranks of the Taliban via religious indoctrination from primary school age. Additionally, with so many girls their age being forced into marriage with much older men, this leads to many boys entering adulthood without a suitable romantic partner. Since sexually frustrated men are probably the easiest people to recruit into terrorist organizations, this poses serious problems in the future.