PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani human rights group that has accused the military of widespread abuses as it battles Islamist militants in Pakistan's rugged border region with neighboring ...

Pakistan's military establishment has long accused a Pashtun rights movement that calls for end to conflict along the border with Afghanistan of conspiring against the state. However, the group is ...

Manzoor Pastheen, the leader of Pakistan's Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) speaks during a demonstration in Lahore in April 2018. ... “We agreed that there were Taliban in our area, ...

A Pashtun clan in Pakistan wants Islamabad to honor its words by cracking down on Taliban factions in Jani Khel. Yet a two-week sit-in protest demands Islamabad avoid an all-out military offensive ...

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 ...

Pakistan: Pashtun Activist Arrested . ... In recent years, the area has experienced attacks by the Taliban, government military offensives, and United States drone strikes.

In 2018, Manzoor Pashteen initiated the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) as a response to Pakistan’s extensive military campaigns in the Pashtun belt, which uprooted hundreds of families, razed ...

The recent waves of Pashtun protests in Pakistan have drawn the world’s attention to two of the biggest tragedies in the history of the country: Pashtun genocide and attack on freedom of speech.

WASHINGTON — Pakistan is bracing for a new military offensive that is expected to target militants in the northwest as ethnic Pashtuns in the area say they are still looking for accountability ...

Pashtun residing in a vast geographical area across the border and the diaspora may have some variation regarding the cultural traits; however, the majority of their cultural items and characters ...

Pakistan’s civilian government and the military leadership believe that rooting out the TTP-led militancy is the need of the hour. Pashtuns’ experience with war. Those who live in the areas along the ...

Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the Punjab-dominated state and the Pashtun people is widening.