ISLAMABAD — At first, the killing last month of Naqeebullah Mehsud — an aspiring model shot by police in Karachi who claimed afterward that he was a Taliban militant — seemed merely the latest in a ...

All Pashtuns claim to be descendants of four persons: Sarban, Batan, Ghorghust, and Karlani, all sons of Abu Qais. During the time of King Amanullah, Afghans were described as of Aryan origin, and ...

Human rights activists gather outside the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to protest the enforced disappearances of Pashtuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Fazal-Ur Rehman Afridi, a renowned journalist and ...

It has done nothing to unite them all as Pashtuns and thus discourage terrorist recruitment that is ultimately aimed at cleansing the entire Kurram from its Shia population. This is because this group ...

BIRMINGHAM (Reuters) - Time was when young ethnic minority Pashtuns in Britain might dream about returning to the lands of their forefathers to fight for the Taliban, following links of blood and ...

Pakistan's decision to ban a prominent civil rights organization will further alienate the country's large Pashtun ethnic minority, experts say. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a grassroots ...