When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Thousands of men dance to the beat of drums as a Pashtun community in northwestern Pakistan celebrates the arrival of the new year and spring. They say that Norouz, the ...

This handout photo from Pakistan’s ISPR shows guns and other military equipment purportedly seized from TTP fighters in Pishin District, Oct. 18, 2024. The TTP emerged in 2007 from a coalition of ...

These facts all reflect the severe crisis of Pashtun nationalism in the region. Finding no common ethnic ground, Shia and Sunni Pashtuns remain open to exploitation by various local and foreign actors ...

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 ...

The Afghan government and many Afghan civilians feel that the Pashtuns residing in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are Afghan nationals who ...