What is clear now is that Pashtun secularists will not be ignored in Afghanistan's political sharing power process. Their future role depends heavily on their relationship with the Taliban and the ...

Pashtun society, rich in history, culture, and tradition, is characterized by a profound respect for its social codes and norms. However, the role of women within this society is a complex issue.

Pashtuns came to the fore when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. They formed a large part of the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance that had Western and Arab support but was ...

Here are two words that don't often appear in the same sentence: nonviolent Pashtuns.For centuries, Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and i ...

A factional leader of the Pashtun-dominated political party Hizb-I-Islami, Wahidullah Sabawoon, who is permitted to leave his home only in the company of security officials, repeats accusations ...

Photographer Omar Mullick has spent the last decade passing through the countries of Central Asia on assignment. He reflects on his photographs of a Pashtun cinema in Karachi, a space that defied ...

Recent stories in the Israeli and Western media report that an Indian researcher is studying blood samples from a Pashtun migrant community in northern India to see whether the Pashtuns of today's ...

Former King Mohammed Zahir Shah may aspire to be a man for all ethnic groups in Afghanistan, but to his fellow Pashtuns he is above all else one of their own. Zahir Shah’s most loyal subjects ...

Abubakar Siddique, The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan (C. Hurst & Co. 2014) The “mujahideen” reached Peshawar in the early 19th century, bringing with ...

Pashtun society, rich in history, culture, and tradition, is characterized by a profound respect for its social codes and norms. However, the role of women within this society is a complex issue.