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Pakistan’s government has proscribed the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (Pashtun Defence Movement)—a Pashtun nationalist organization that has led mass protests against military repression—under ...
Taliban Pakistan has strategically rebranded, from a primarily religious militant organization to a defender of Pashtun society.
Norouz festivities are making a comeback among Pashtun communities in northwestern Pakistan. The spring celebrations marking the arrival of the new year died down a century ago due to calendar ...
Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a civil organization campaigning for the rights of the country’s Pashtun minority. Experts and politicians say the ban will further alienate the ...
After a deadly clash between troops and activists at a security post in northern Pakistan, organisers of a rights movement that has unnerved the powerful army say a campaign of intimidation against ...
Nationwide protests at the police killing of a young ethnic Pashtun man in Pakistan's largest city have shone a spotlight on allegations of persecution by the authorities against refugees from the ...
According to the post shared by PTM Holland, Orakzai, known for his tireless advocacy as a human rights defender and active ...
What started off as a conversation among students leaders at Gomal University in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtukhua (KP) province in 2014, quickly became its own organization, the Pashtun Tahafuz ...
The Pakistan Army on Sunday (July 28) opened fire on Pashtun protesters in the Tirah valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven and injuring more than twenty.
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed annually on August 30 since its official recognition by the United Nations in 2010, the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has ...
Pakistani Pashtun Leader: Nationalism Is a ‘Reaction Against the Racist Policies of the State’ Manzoor Pashteen is a rising political star willing to speak out on taboo subjects.
Nationwide protests at the police killing of a young ethnic Pashtun man in Pakistan's largest city have shone a spotlight on allegations of persecution by the authorities against refugees from the ...