The recently resurfaced rumors propped up by certain Israeli circles that the Pashtuns are the lost tribe of Israel has given academic circles a lingering pause. Its biblical claims are anecdotal, its ...
The Pashtun Uprising in Pakistan: A Plea for Justice
Many persons who had disappeared but were in government custody were ... The reason for this scepticism is on account of the fact that the Pashtuns are fragmented along tribal and sub-tribal lines. In ...
What Does the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Want?
I lost the election for just over 300 votes ... As the world’s largest tribal society, the Pashtuns are known for their hospitality, commitment, and valor, yet we were falsely reduced to ...
Ten Lost Tribes
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Pakistan’s Counterproductive Dismissal of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Apart from the tribal areas, where the Pakistani security forces have been conducting anti-Taliban operations since 2005, the district of Swat also tops among areas in the list of “missing ...
The tale of two Pakistans
The loss of 55 per cent of her population threatened legal and ... hospitable with the bravest defenders of Islam and Pakistan. However after 9/11, when Pashtun tribes refused to co-operate with the ...
Pashtun freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
For his tireless activism, he was given the nickname "Badshah Khan" (king of the tribal leaders ... into a bloody civil war in which the Pashtuns and Pakistan played leading roles. Khan's words from ...
How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed ...
Talk:Pashtuns/Archive 15
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Pashtun tribal jirga arrives in Kabul for talks with TTP leaders
the ceasefire ended two days ago (Monday), but both sides will not take action against each other until it is extended. The caretaker government of Afghanistan has not yet commented on the arrival of ...
