By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal January 28, 2024 Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have detained several members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) who were protesting the continuing detention of group leader Manzoor Pashteen, who has campaigned for the country’s Pashtun minority. The movement has pressed since 2018 for the rights of Pakistan’s estimated 35
VOA News December 5, 2023 The leader of a Pakistan ethnic group has been detained after authorities said armed men in his vehicle opened fire on police. Raja Athar Abbas, the deputy commissioner of the northcentral city of Chaman, which sits on the border with Afghanistan, said that Manzoor Pashteen was arrested in connection with
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 16, 2023 Abubakar Siddique Majeed Babar A middle-aged lawyer, Nia Beg, is anxious after a large incursion by Islamist militants rattled his homeland in northwestern Pakistan this month. Beg is Kalash, and he follows the ancient pagan religion practiced in Bumburet and other remote valleys collectively called Kalash in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Abubakar Siddique Azmat Ali Shah July 9, 2023 PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan is the only country Gul Mohammad, a 42-year-old Afghan refugee, knows. He was born in a refugee camp in the teeming, sizzling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Eighteen years ago, he married a Pakistani woman, hoping to settle down
Pir Zubair Shah VOA News April 23, 2023 WASHINGTON — Pakistan is bracing for a new military offensive that is expected to target militants in the northwest as ethnic Pashtuns in the area say they are still looking for accountability for the army’s last offensives in the region, in 2014 and 2017. The country’s national security
Khaama: Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner says that Pashtuns across Afghanistan and Pakistan have been the victims of ‘terrorism’, and have suffered discrimination, displacement, and death for long enough. Malala says, as a Pakistani Pashtun Muslim woman, she seriously opposes the remarks of Pakistan’s Representative to the United Nations about the Pashtuns. Click
Khaama: Local authorities have reported that militants attacked a police outpost using in northeastern Pakistan, killing three security personnel on Thursday evening. The terror attack took place in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan late yesterday evening. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed the responsibility for the deadly
Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 14, 2023 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 that ended on January 12 as a “people’s uprising” to show authorities that they will
Khaama: With the unprecedented rise of terror attacks across Pakistan in the recent past, targeting army personnel, ISI officers, police officials, and ordinary citizens, the men in charge of security establishments in Pakistan are still blustering with no pragmatic approaches ahead. Being a nuclear power in the world, and equipped with sophisticated American and Chinese
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan advocated Tuesday for a cooperative bilateral relationship with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, warning mutual tensions could turn his country’s counterterrorism efforts into a “disastrous forever war.” Khan spoke at a seminar in the capital, Islamabad, as a new wave of terrorism grips