“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 ...

The steep V of a mountain pass marks a half-remembered, half-imagined map. This is the border between ... Women make up roughly half of the 42 million Pashtun people in the borderland.

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 ...