As the sun sets on a chilly night, Saat Malook takes a five-minute walk from his home in Pakistan to his plowed fields in Afghanistan. Located at the edge of the border, this town of mud walls and ...

The Pashtun ethnic community, the second-largest demographic group in Pakistan, has complained about marginalisation in the country for decades. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), which translates to ...

Millions of ethnic Pashtuns have endured years of terrorist violence, military operations, and displacement in northwestern Pakistan, and yet their protests rarely reverberate in the country’s capital ...

With American withdrawal from Afghanistan distinctly on the cards, it is imperative that one makes an objective assessment of the future of Afghanistan by factoring in the variable of Pashtun ...

“I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is forgiveness and ...

Abubakar Siddique, editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Gandhara website, is author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan. This article first ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...

Haniya Aslam was sitting in her family home in the turbulent, deeply conservative North-West Frontier province of Pakistan in October when a deafening blast shook the neighborhood, rattling doors and ...

In Pakistan, every third child cannot go to school, and the situation is especially dire for Pashtun kids. But many refuse to ...