Few identities carry as much pride as that of the Pashtun. We speak of honour, courage, hospitality and dignity not as abstract ideals but as lived values and daily experiences - passed down through ...

Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan. Ayaz lives near Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s ...

Pakistan's decision to ban a prominent civil rights organization will further alienate the country's large Pashtun ethnic minority, experts say. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a grassroots ...

Since the rise of the Arab Spring in 2010, social movements have taken off around the world. In response, there has been a wealth of scholarly works published in an attempt to dissect the genesis, ...

Pakistan’s government has proscribed the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (Pashtun Defence Movement)—a Pashtun nationalist organization that has led mass protests against military repression—under the ...

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 ...

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On a warm winter afternoon in Nankana Saheb, local businessman Amarjeet Singh can’t help an embarrassed smile when recounting what had happened earlier that day at the Gurdwara Janam Asthan, one of ...

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 ...

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A retired schoolteacher, Fazal Zaman Shalman, locally known as Pakhtun Ustaz, listens to an old Pashto song on a historical gramophone displayed in a private museum he established some two decades ago ...