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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Since 11 September 2001, Pashtuns feel they have become the most vilified ethnic group in the world. They are angry, frustrated and now want to reclaim their identity from being lumped with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geneva, Switzerland, June 29 (ANI): Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi, Executive Director of the Khyber Institute and PTM representative for Europe has raised concerns about the ongoing protests by Pashtuns ...

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 ...