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The land of Pashtuns is once again a hot spot of the great game. After Afghanistan, the Pashtun belt in Pakistan is burning. A twister of violence, extremism, terrorism, insanity, militancy and ...
The Pashtuns are a people apart; proud, ... This enigmatic landscape, once traversed by Scythian warriers and Greek troops, is populated mostly by the Afridi and Shinwari tribes, ...
Pashtuns are well known for their bravery and hospitality across the world but very little is penned about their penchant,romanticism and passion for traditional dances. AGL 22.30 Decreased By -0. ...
Pashtuns The Taliban is largely made up of an ethnic group called the Pashtuns. They are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, and also have a significant presence in northwest Pakistan.
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 ...
Here are two words that don't often appear in the same sentence: nonviolent Pashtuns.For centuries, Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and i ...
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 ...
Recent initiatives to recruit more southern Pashtuns into the Afghan security forces have failed, leaving Afghanistan with a critical shortage of soldiers familiar with the Taliban's main ...
Activists of the Pashtun Protection Movement protest against the arrest of their activists and leaders, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Feb. 10. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) Mohsin Dawar represents ...