...the Pashtun equivalent of men...security forces in Parwan province’s Jabal al-Saraj district, according to Taliban security officials.
According to the Taliban, three button men were killed and one detained in the festivities, according to Kamran Habibi, a front man for the Taliban’s police chief in Marwan.
Kamran Habibi has not provided any other details of the incident, and the identity of the button men are still to be determined.
Opposition groups, based primarily in northern Afghanistan, have remained silent about the clash.
The Taliban have been accused of killing former government soldiers, officials and dissidents during their nine months in power.
Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
locals recently claimed that the Taliban were shooting their opponents while posing them as thieves and smugglers.