Must not have been much of "stronghold".
But then the Left can change the definition of men and women, the definition of normal and deviant, and now the definition of stronghold
Mazar-e-Sharif was a stronghold. Dostan ruled that city to the point the government had to do what he wanted.
That Dostan’s militia, which kept the Taliban out of MES for 20 years, retreated so fast is a surprise to me. But what do I know? I was just there in late 2019.