“Pashtuns are at the heart of insurgency in both ... The Taliban made the point in a colorful map of Afghanistan drawn at a school in Kandahar. The word “Pashtunistan” runs the entire ...

as he sits on velvet cushions before an open map of Pakistan. Jogezai is a nawab, or regional official, recognized as the head of all Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan and Pakistan’s ...

The idea of secularism in Afghanistan dates back to the 20 century. Historically, the Pashtun political elite in Afghanistan paid attention to secularism. Although there is no accurate ...

Pashtun rights activist and political leader Sardar Arif Wazir has died of injuries sustained in a shooting attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district. The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement ...

Pashtun tribesmen descend on the market to stock up on the essentials - flat bread, sticky, fist-sized balls of hard brown sugar, ammunition belts, pistols and Kalashnikov rifles. Seraj Khan ...

Pashtuns The Taliban is largely made up of an ethnic group called the Pashtuns. They are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, and also have a significant presence in northwest Pakistan.

The Pashtun ethnic community, the second-largest demographic group in Pakistan, has complained about marginalisation in the country for decades. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), which ...