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Pakistani Pashtun activists killed in Taliban attack, ensuing police operation

4th June, 2018 · admin

Press TV June 4, 2018 Several Pashtun ethnic activists have been killed in an attack by the Taliban and a following police operation in Pakistan’s border region of South Waziristan. Local sources in Wana, the main administrative center for South Waziristan, said two Pashtuns had been killed and 25 others injured on Sunday after the

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Hekmatyar Reacts to Calls for Renaming Afghanistan Back to Khorasan

1st June, 2018 · admin · 16 Comments

Ariana:  “Some individuals shamelessly say we don’t accept the name of Afghanistan and want to change it to Khorasan. Khorasan is a province in Iran. There is no one to hold them accountable and give them a lesson,” Hekmatyar said while speaking at a mosque in Kabul. Recently, Abdul Latif Pedram, leader of the National

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Political News | Tags: Abdul Latif Pedram, Farsi, Khorasan, Pashto, Pashtunization, Pashtuns, Tajiks |
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Pakistani President Signs Law Merging Tribal Areas With Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

1st June, 2018 · admin · 5 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 31, 2018 Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain has signed legislation that merges the country’s tribal regions with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and therefore grants some 5 million people in the regions the same rights as other Pakistanis. Hussain signed the law in Islamabad on May 31. The bill had previously been

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line, Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Afghanistan objects to KP-FATA merger

27th May, 2018 · admin

Daily Times (Pakistan): Afghanistan on Saturday objected to the Pakistan’s decision of KP-FATA merger, saying “the decision was against the 1921 agreement between the British India and Afghanistan”. Comments by the Afghan Presidential Palace came two days after both houses of the Pakistani parliament approved the merger with two-third majority. Click here to read more (external

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Pakistan Paves Way to Mainstreaming Restive Tribal Areas

24th May, 2018 · admin · 15 Comments

Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News May 24, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s national assembly passed a historic constitutional amendment Thursday, paving the way to bringing the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas, known as FATA, into the political mainstream, just a week before the end of its tenure. The bill will be taken up Friday in the Senate. Until

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Pakistan Envoy: No Country Can Accuse Us of Not Taking Action Against Terrorists

17th May, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Madeeha Anwar VOA News May 16, 2018 WASHINGTON — Pakistan is the one country in the region that has done the most against terrorism, and no country can accuse Pakistan of not doing enough against terrorism and extremism, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S., told VOA. “Al-Qaida, if you don’t hear about it

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Manzoor Pashteen, Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Pak-Afghan situations could trigger third world war, claims Pak politician

1st May, 2018 · admin · 7 Comments

Khaama Press: Awami National Party (ANP) central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain made the claims as he was speaking during a press conference on Monday. He went on to claim that “Superpowers including Russia, China and USA are fighting in Afghanistan but Pakhtuns on both sides are becoming victims of their war.” Click here to read more

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pashtuns |
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Pakistan Media Blackout of Ethnic Pashtun Rally Triggers Outrage

9th April, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Ayaz Gul VOA News April 9, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Television stations in Pakistan are under fire for their continued black out of peaceful rallies by an ethnic Pashtun movement against extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances of Pashtuns, particularly those living in the volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement organized its latest

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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Ethnic Pashtuns protest against abuses by Pakistani security forces

8th April, 2018 · admin · 1 Comment

Press TV April 8, 2018 Thousands of ethnic Pashtuns have held a massive rally in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to call for an end to abuses by police as the country’s military continues its offensive against militants across the tribal belt along the Afghan border. A senior police official estimated that about 30,000 people

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Manzoor Pashteen, Pashtunistan, Pashtuns, Protest |
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Hats Proliferate as Symbol of Pashtun Protest Movement

7th April, 2018 · admin · 7 Comments

VOA News April 6, 2018 An Afghanistan-made hat known as a “Mazari hat” has been in high demand in markets across Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan since Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of a Pashtun movement, started wearing it at public rallies and protests. The red and black Mazari hat is a traditional garment worn mostly

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghan Clothes, Balkh, Manzoor Pashteen, Pashtunistan, Pashtuns |
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