a popular Pashtun stage singer and actress was shot and killed near Peshawar, allegedly by her husband. But two years ago, Tajik’s family moved from their ancestral village to Peshawar where she ...

Before 2001 the main business of the Karzai family lay in running a successful ... politician and dissident Head of the Popalzai Pashto tribe, Abdul Ahad Karzai became Deputy Speaker of the ...

One of the leaders, Hamid Karzai, a former Afghan deputy foreign minister who is a member of a prominent Pashtun family, sneaked into Afghanistan in October and spent three weeks traveling in a ...

For the past three years, his family of nine has been sleeping under canvas. Worst of all: no more firearms. “A Pashtun who doesn’t have a gun is not a Pashtun – he’s nothing,” says Mr ...

The authorities must realize that every man they forcibly disappear has a family." -- Basro Bibi, whose husband has been missing for four years Many Pashtuns claim they have been the targets of ...

Members of India’s Gujjar community in Jammu are genetically much closer to the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan than to other population groups within India, a genetic study has revealed, ...