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 ...

Pashtun lands have long been a battleground for competing interests, but the last 50 years have perhaps been the darkest in their history. Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line have been the ...

A retired schoolteacher, Fazal Zaman Shalman, locally known as Pakhtun Ustaz, listens to an old Pashto song on a historical gramophone displayed in a private museum he established some two decades ago ...

A new movement demanding security for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority is transforming into a nationalist struggle with long-term consequences for the country’s politics, security, society, and ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | An attack by suspected Taliban militants on the mausoleum of a Sufi saint and poet has shocked Pashtuns living on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and threatens to ...

Abubakar Siddique, editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Gandhara website, is author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan. This article first ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington, and joining us now from London is Muhammad Junaid. He’s a researcher, a PhD student, and he is studying the ...

For more than a century, British colonial writings have been the main source of Western information about Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second biggest in Pakistan. A new ...

Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand line have been at the receiving end of some of the most grotesque and intense violence by the Taliban. In this July 14, 2021 file photo, supporters of the Taliban ...