The Peshawar High Court upheld the Pakistan government's ban on the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and its leaders. The court rejected petitions challenging the proscription, which PTM argued was ...

Since the formation of the Afghan National Unity Government in 2014, Kabul has used “Pashtun Diplomacy” as an instrument to bring the bilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship back on track and make ...

The idea of secularism in Afghanistan dates back to the 20 century. Historically, the Pashtun political elite in Afghanistan paid attention to secularism. Although there is no accurate survey on the ...

In my most recent Wall Street Journal column (read it here), I write about the Pashtun Tahafuz (protection) Movement, a non-violent group that campaigns against human rights abuses by Pakistan’s army ...

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 ...

Earlier, the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) held a peaceful demonstration along with local human rights activists against Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistani Army, involved in ...

I recently attended a celebration at a banquet hall in Toronto. A beautiful young woman wearing a colorful ethnic dress was standing on the brightly-lit stage. Next to her was a table, on which sat a ...

Pakistan drew international attention at Davos for all the wrong reasons.

The “mujahideen” reached Peshawar in the early 19th century, bringing with them a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam and the readiness of zealots to use violence – then against the Sikhs. Their ...

If he is to succeed, Afghanistan’s president will need to come to grips with the country’s ethnic tensions. With his impressive background, which includes a stint as a senior official at the World ...

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its Loya Jirga grand assembly on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the ...

Tajmeenah Khan, a Pashtun athlete, defies cultural stigma to pursue table tennis professionally, relying on family ...