Pashtuns May Bring the Afghan War Home to America. Published Sep 23, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Jul 01, 2010 at 1:41 PM EDT. By Newsweek Staff . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW.

Once a vibrant hub for Afghan refugees rebuilding their lives, the bustling lanes of Lajpat Nagar and Malviya Nagar in the ...

Why Pakistan Supports Afghan Pashtuns . First, Pashtuns are considered a majority ethnic group in Afghanistan. Since Afghanistan has never conducted any countrywide census to determine the actual ...

In a traditional clothing workshop in Kabul, dozens of women are busy producing Gand Afghani garments-outfits adorned with ...

The world's disengagement will once again turn Afghanistan into the "no man's land" that the early leaders of Al-Qaeda made their headquarters in the mid-1990s.

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 survey on ...

Afghan-Pak tensions had begun in 1947, when Afghanistan started insisting that Pakistan give its Pashtuns the right to self-determination, thus giving birth to the so-called “Pashtunistan” issue.

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 ...

Pashto is one of Afghanistan’s national languages and is used for official communications by the Taliban, which has controlled the country since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.

Most Afghan Pashtuns, including those residing in areas adjacent to Pakistan, are as (if not more) suspicious of Pakistan as non-Pashtuns. For many Afghan Pashtuns, at least in theory, the Afghan ...