The unions criticized the Quetta police for exceeding their authority and ignoring the cultural sensitivities of the Baloch and Pashtun communities. They described the crackdown as a deliberate act of ...

Dr. Bakht Zaman, a professor at the University of Peshawar currently researching the negative portrayal of men in media, explains that Pashtun men were initially shown as servants, drivers ...

“Bacha bazi” are the dancing boys of Afghanistan — boys who are forced to dress as females to dance and entertain Pashtun men, who make them their sex slaves. Look, a drag queen named ...

These are extreme actions by an extreme man. But many Pashtun men perceive that their manhood and very way of life are under assault—by a foreign military, foreign religious leaders, foreign ...

In Pakistan at least 20 miners were killed after armed men stormed a small private coal ... Balochistan province mainly targeted people from Pashtun-speaking areas of the province.

The Pashtun ethnic community, the second-largest demographic group in Pakistan, has complained about marginalisation in the country for decades. The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), which ...

Hailing from Afghanistan, Najiba Faiz is a known Pashtun actor and anchor. She is the first Pashtun woman who kicked off her career as a child artist from PTV. She completed her bachelor’s ...

The attack in Balochistan province mainly targeted people from Pashtun-speaking areas of the ... “A group of armed men ...

Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Taliban through a topographically, ethnically and geo-politically distinct space: the Pashtun Borderland of today's Afghanistan and ...

In a recent discussion about Pashtun identity and the challenges faced by the community, Levsa Bayankhail, Convener of the Pashtun Security Dialogue at the Indic Researchers Forum and Secretary ...