“Once Were Nomads: Textiles and Culture in Baluchistan” uses textiles to examine the traditional life and culture of the peoples that make their home in the Baluchistan region. Baluchistan literally ...

The book begins with the famous quote by Khushal Khan Khattak, the national poet of Afghanistan: “ Pull out your swords and slay anyone that says Pashtun and Afghan are not one!

A Pashtun bride wearing a traditional costume for her marriage is pictured inside a beauty parlour in Kabul [Getty Images] Until 1885, the Pashtun tribes from eastern and southern parts of Afghanistan ...

A key area where this is reflected is the Durand line—the 2640-km long borderline which divides Pakistan and Afghanistan, but more importantly, separates the Pashtuns, drawing a line through the ...

Local news reports said, “thousands of acres of lands has been confiscated by nomads and the Taliban imprisoned the protesters.” The Taliban draws its core strength and cadre from the Pashtun ...

Faizullah, a resident of Qush Tepa, says Pashtun nomads with the help of the Taliban seized more than 20,000 acres of their land. “Nobody could resist,” he says.

11/25/2021 Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August, Pakistani authorities have closed many border crossings, restricting the movement of people and goods. A remote crossing allows ...

Except for two short-lived exceptions, in 1929 and between 1992 and 1994, only Pashtun leaders have ruled Afghanistan since 1750. Pashtuns constitute Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group.

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country of Central and South Asia bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan ...