This report denies there are Pashtun influences already in the ranks of the Northern Alliance. However there are Pashtun infuences in the Northern Alliance. The ommission of this fact assumes we will believe anything as long as it is repeated often enough, typical liberal B.S. strategy.
I don't know if you are correct. Certainly in the king's entourage there are the Pashtun, but the NA/King alliance is pretty much DOA -- except in the fantasy world of most Congressmen and think tankers.
In addition, many of the Pashtun commanders in southern Afghanistan have distanced themselves from the Taliban and have expressed their willingness to join the Northern Alliance in forming an Afghanistan Loya Jirga to run the country after the demise of the Taliban is complete.
Things seem to be progressing along those lines, as well as can be expected after only a month or so of fighting.
Of course the whole thing could fall into the shitcan, but such is war.