When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its Loya Jirga grand assembly on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the ...
The Pakistan Army on Sunday (July 28) opened fire on Pashtun protesters in the Tirah valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven and injuring more than twenty. Pashtun community members had ...
This handout photo from Pakistan’s ISPR shows guns and other military equipment purportedly seized from TTP fighters in Pishin District, Oct. 18, 2024. The TTP emerged in 2007 from a coalition of ...
These facts all reflect the severe crisis of Pashtun nationalism in the region. Finding no common ethnic ground, Shia and Sunni Pashtuns remain open to exploitation by various local and foreign actors ...
PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Thousands of men dance to the beat of drums as a Pashtun community in northwestern Pakistan celebrates the arrival of the new year and spring. They say that Norouz, the ...
The Afghan government and many Afghan civilians feel that the Pashtuns residing in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are Afghan nationals who ...