Since the formation of the Afghan National Unity Government in 2014, Kabul has used “Pashtun Diplomacy” as an instrument to bring the bilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship back on track and make ...

Pakistan’s Pashtun tribal areas — formerly known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) — have remained a centre of violence since the United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001.

Pashtun lands have long been a battleground for competing interests, but the last 50 years have perhaps been the darkest in their history. Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line have been the ...

A 200-year-old wooden hujra in Swat’s Dardiyal area still preserves Pashtun traditions of jirga, hospitality and community gatherings, serving as a symbol of cultural heritage.

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 ...

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 powerful military is trying to crush a nonviolent movement for civil rights. By Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen Mr. Pashteen is leading the movement for civil rights for the Pashtun minority in ...

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 ...

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, ...

JANI KHEL, Pakistan -- In a desperate attempt to force authorities to take action against the Taliban, members of a Pashtun clan in western Pakistan are refusing to bury their dead and threatening to ...

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