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The Patriotic Pashtuns

Sarban, Batan, Ghorghust, and Karlani, all sons of Abu Qais. During the time of King Amanullah, Afghans were described as of Aryan origin, and because of this Aryan hype, even the Afghan airline was ...
As the sun sets on a chilly night, Saat Malook takes a five-minute walk from his home in Pakistan to his plowed fields in Afghanistan. Located at the edge of the border, this town of mud walls and ...
“I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is forgiveness and ...
Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...
Ghazala Javed wasn't her usual lighthearted self when she and her sister, Farhat, arrived at the hairdresser's that Monday evening in June. "Usually she'd start sing-ing her latest soundtrack," ...
Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi and Kashmiri activists joined an online Afghan United Front meeting to reaffirm their struggle for ...
Last month, the grievances of millions of ethnic Pashtuns echoed in Pakistan’s capital as thousands participated in a 10-day sit-in to demand rights and an end to unlawful killings, impunity, ...
A security official stands guard while people, fleeing the military offensive against Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, line up to receive food supplies from the Army in Bannu, in Pakistan’s ...
Pakistani authorities have banned a popular civil rights movement that campaigns for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has been engaged in “certain activities” ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested a young and charismatic rights activist from the Pashtun community, the nation’s largest minority group, who has been a thorn in the ...