Nonetheless, the inept decision-makers seem determined not to pursue course correction, nor will they pay heed to the prevailing humanitarian crisis in the Pashtun ... the Mahmund area of Bajaur ...

Similarly, a delegation of Pashtun elders, formed during the Pashtun ... unidentified assailants launched an attack in Bagan, a Sunni-majority area, leaving Mehsud and several others severely ...

Afridi, a Pashtun prisoner, attacked him with a bayonet ... in Waziristan were killed in this fiercely independent tribal area. The last to perish was PT Duncan, shot dead at Sararogha on the ...

Newly empowered and emboldened, the TTP dreams of following in the Afghan Taliban’s footsteps by carving out its own emirate ...

Refuting Pakistan military claims of killing Baloch Liberation Army fighters and gaining control over its several areas the BLA said it has inflicted heavy ...

The peace agreement will be implemented according to law and Pashtun traditions," he said ... Mehsud came under attack near the Bagan area, resulting in injuries to the official and six members ...

As my semester ended after five months, I returned to my ancestral hometown, Bajaur. Unusually, though not surprisingly, I discovered that the local populace in my village patrols at night as guards ...

Both sides complained that even children and women had been targeted in sheer violation of the Pashtun honour code ... responsibility for attacks in the area.

While in Afghanistan, my unit stumbled upon a stray herd of goats in an area where we regularly met ... was wildly inconsistent with Islamic and Pashtun burial traditions. I couldn’t know ...

especially if another attack appears to originate from this area. In other words, Pakistan will get its ‘front line’ status back—and the dollars that go with it, tame the Taliban, and at the same time ...