PESHAWAR, March 17: A recent visit by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to northern Afghanistan has fanned a dispute over the extent to which the ethnic Pakhtoon minority is being targeted for reprisals by the Tajiks and the Uzbeks.

Ms Robinson says she was shocked by victims’ accounts during her tour this month.

The Afghan Truth Commission urged her on Sunday to send a proposed truth commission to Afghanistan to investigate into the atrocities committed by all the factions and not just the ousted Taliban.

Thousands of Pakhtoons are fleeing persecution in northern Afghanistan, a New York-based human rights group has said in its recent report.—NNI