The Pakistan Government banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a group that fights for the rights of ethnic Pashtuns, citing it as a threat to national security. Watch for more details!

Pakistan Imposes Ban on Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

Pakistan Government Imposes Ban on Ethnic Pashtun Party

An Indian Kashmiri Muslim activist Javed Ahmad Beigh on Friday (Mar 15) blasted Pakistan for its treatment of minorities while speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Watch: Kashmiri activist slams Pakistan at UNHRC over plight of Pashtun Shias

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that members of the Haqqani network are Pashtun tribals. His remarks have triggered a huge controversy.

Pak PM Imran Khan takes flak for calling 'Haqqani' a Pashtuns tribe

Durrani, Ghilzai & Zadran, the Taliban are made of several Pashtun tribes that have always fought for control. The Haqqani Network is now using this infighting to build its clout. Palki Sharma tells you how divisions are slowly emerging within the Taliban.

Gravitas: Divisions emerge in Taliban's Islamic Emirate

In October 1947 a militia of thousands of Pashtun tribesmen invaded the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir. The invasion ignited the first India - Pakistan War, traumatised Kashmiri society, and set a precedent for the use of non-state actors by Pakistan to foment unrest in Kashmir that continues today. A special, two-part series by WION on this little-known but definitive event in the history of the subcontinent.

Kashmir 1947: Anatomy of an invasion

Drawing the international community`s attention towards the plight of 40 million Afghan-Pashtuns living in Pakistan, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader said that the recent brutal attack on Zeba Safi (also known as Malala) in Momand district of Pakhtunkhwa by unknown militants was likely by the military secret service.

Pak responsible for miseries, genocide of Afghan-Pashtuns: PTM leader at UNHRC

A massive number of protesters participated in a Pashtun unity march in Wana of South Waziristan on Sunday against the Pakistan Army, condemning the re-emergence of terror groups and long-pending demand to produce missing persons to courts.

Pashtun unity march in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against re-emergence of terror groups

Activists and supporters of the Sindhi, Baloch and Pashtun ethnic groups on Tuesday held a protest, condemning Pakistan`s atrocities against minorities and crimes against humanity, outside the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) headquarters in Geneva.

Sindh, Baloch and Pashtuns protest against Pakistan Army atrocities outside UNHRC

A Pakistani court Saturday ordered the release of a Pashtun rights leader critical of the military, his lawyer said, weeks after he was arrested on sedition charges.

Pakistan court orders release of Pashtun rights leader

A Pakistani court on Tuesday rejected the transit bail plea of a prominent Pashtun minority leader, known for criticising the country's powerful military, and ordered his transfer to another jail, a day after he was arrested for alleged sedition, leading to calls for his immediate release.

Pakistan court denies bail to prominent Pashtun minority leader arrested for 'sedition'

A massive number of protestors participated in a Pashtun unity march in Bannu of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday against the atrocities inflicted by the military and demanded the formation of a commission to probe the army brutalities in the region.

Pashtun unity march in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against Pak military brutalities

As Pakistan continues to pursue its one-point agenda to internationalise the Kashmir issue at the UNGA, protesters have thronged the streets of New York against human rights violations in the South Asian country.

Protests against human rights abuse in Pakistan rock New York

Deadly Clashes Erupted In Pakistan's North Waziristan. Pakistan's Army Is Leading A Mission To Crush The Pashtun Protests. Here Is What Happened.

Gravitas: Pashtun Protests In Pakistan: Activists And Protesters Clash

Protests erupted against Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Pak Army for brutal killing of Pashtun police officer, Tahir Dawar. Pashtuns in Pakistan chanted slogans against the Pakistan Army and ISI for brutally killing Dawar.

Protests erupt against ISI, Pakistan Army for killing Pashtun police officer

Several Pashtun ethnic rights activists were killed and at least 25 were wounded in a Pakistan tribal region on Sunday, when Taliban militants attacked their gathering and security forces opened fire on protesters during disturbances that followed

Pashtun activists killed in Pakistan, blame militants and security forces

The MQM Chief has also warned the Pakistani administration not to create hurdles and interfere with the rally

MQM leader Altaf Hussain announces new Pashtun rally on May 13

The term 'Afghan' was used in the past to denote Pashtuns, traditionally the most politically powerful ethnic group

Afghanistan President launches ID cards terming everyone 'Afghan', but citizens dissent

The Lahore Police have refused to grant permission for a public meeting at Lahore in connection with Pashtun Long March to Lahore on Saturday

Pakistan: Pashtuns to hold meet despite no permission

Roads leading to the 20-year-old education activist's childhood home in Mingora were blocked off earlier in the day, and a helicopter was seen landing at a government guest house about 1 km (half a mile) from her house

'I've never been so happy': Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on visiting hometown in Pakistan

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