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 ...

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 ...

There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotypes, this one comes with a cornel of truth. After all, the ...

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 ...

India, Oct. 30 -- The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power in Kabul in 1996 - as the creation of Pakistan (by Maj Gen ...

Manzoor Ahmed Pashteen, a 24-year-old ethnic Pashtun, was just a child when the US-led war on terror began, and it wasn't long until it was on his doorstep. He said ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - 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 ...

Sahib Khan, a political activist, is one of the organizers of a recent sit-in protest in Wana, a remote town near Pakistan's western border with Afghanistan. Khan describes the weeklong demonstration ...

We’re just back from some travel in Ohio to see family, friends and even a couple of doctors. One of our hotels was serviced by porters who were refugees from Afghanistan. I was using a cane because ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - 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 ...