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 ...

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 ...

While ordinary people have fought each other over land disputes, everyone familiar with the area understands that the ostensibly proscribed sectarian organisation, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), ...

According to a report by The Express Tribune, the attacks on Pakistan were made to facilitate the entry of the banned Tehreek ...

Manzoor Ahmed Pashteen, a 24-year-old ethnic Pashtun, was just a child when the US-led war on terror began, and it wasn't long until it was on his doorstep. He said ...

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 ...

WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban envoy drew his white trousers up before settling on the floor of a mud-walled house in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police have clashed with supporters of a rights group for the Pashtun ethnic minority in the country’s northwestern angered by a government ban imposed on the ...

Pashtun political activist Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi has expressed serious concerns about what he termed continuous human rights abuses, state-sponsored militancy, and natural resource exploitation in ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least three people were killed in clashes Wednesday between Pakistani police and supporters of a rights group advocating for the Pashtun ethnic minority, angered by a ...