A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they ...

Despite complex regional dynamics, Pakistan has consistently championed a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan, seeing it not merely as a neighbourly duty but a strategic imperative for regional ...

ISKP sees Baloch separatists as secular, nationalists & pro-democracy—traits it calls ‘un-Islamic’. One analyst says Pakistan can ‘technically use IS against BLA’.

The recent clash between Pakistan and India after the Pahalgam attack on April 22 has created concerns in Kabul over ...

The Pashtuns are a people almost as old as time itself. From obscure beginnings, they became the largest ethnic group in ...

The arrest of Afghan national Jandullah Dad Mohammad, 29, from Lucknow airport on May 22 has led the Bureau of Immigration sleuths to.

This phenomenon presents a system of gender reversal in Afghanistan. Whereas rural Pashtun culture remains largely misogynistic and male-dominated due to deeply-ingrained Islamic values ...

On the other hand, Afghanistan lost over 66,000 military personnel, and more than 6,000 Pakistani security forces also perished. However, the Pashtun people of Pakistan suffered the heaviest ...

The Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement grew out of the turmoil of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and Pakistan's counterterrorism operations in the tribal region. With the 2001 U.S. invasion of ...

After years of violence, the local Pashtun population is questioning why peace has not returned to the border region despite the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan's military establishment has long accused a Pashtun rights movement, which calls for an end to conflict along the border with Afghanistan, of conspiring against the state. But the group ...