| 单词 | Pashtun |
| 例句 | It was the biggest exodus in Pashtun history. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I thought of our Pashtunivali code, which governs how we Pashtuns live. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Most Pashtun women would cry and beg and cling to their husbands’ sleeves. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We may be hardheaded and I know we’re far too proud, but, in the hour of need, believe me that there’s no one you’d rather have at your side than a Pashtun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But most Pashtun men would ignore their wives. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Rise once more to make Pashtuns understand the song of honor. Your poetic words turn worlds around. I beg you, rise again. ” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Throughout my childhood, he sang me a song about my famous Pashtun namesake. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My proud, fearless Pashtun father was shaken in a way I’d never seen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They’re lighter brown than mine, with specks of hazel and green, what she claims is the assertion of her distant Pashtun blood. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had “quelled them with unspeakable violence.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had grown up watching stubborn, prideful Pashtun men. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We turned and I saw that he had the dark features of a Pashtun, but he was wearing Western clothes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So goes a famous Pashtun tapa, a couplet my grandmother taught me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In it, I read that my people, the Pashtuns, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He is the Baba of my childhood, Toophan agha, the towering specimen of Pashtun might, not the withered man under the blankets, the man with the sunken cheeks and hollow eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As a Pashtun, you always open your door to a visitor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Babi said that there were tensions between their people—the Tajiks, who were a minority, and Tariq’s people, the Pashtuns, who were the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In the evenings, she and I would often do our homework together, sipping tea—two generations of Pashtun women happily huddled over their books. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will. Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Generally, when a Pashtun man loses an argument, he never really forgets. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m named for the great young Pashtun heroine Malalai, who inspired her countrymen with her courage. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “He is a friend of a business acquaintance of your father’s. He’s a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I remembered something Baba had said about Pashtuns once. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I am a Pashtun, a member of a proud tribe of people spread across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some of them were Pashtuns, like us, and they would soon come to cast a dark shadow over my sunny childhood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But now my brave, proud Pashtun father has taken on the pots and the pans! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Though Tariq and his parents were ethnic Pashtuns, they spoke Farsi when Laila was around for her benefit, even though Laila more or less understood their native Pashto, having learned it in school. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z That is why he chose a pseudonym for me: Gul Makai, which means “cornflower” and is the name of a heroine in a Pashtun folk story. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My father, my proud Pashtun father, was not himself. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the south of Afghanistan, Pashtun women have a poetic tradition called landay. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z Along with Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns, Dari is named in the constitution as one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The beef chapli is the most traditional, though many Pashtun kebab shops would use lamb. French Fries and Chapli Kebabs, Hot From the Skillet 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Both had been born in Kuwait, but ethnically they were tall, fair-skinned, bearded Pakistani Pashtuns. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Along with Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns, Dari is named in the constitution as one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z “It’s a Pashtun game with Pashtun players, so let them enjoy their game.” Swapping Kalashnikovs for bat and pads: Afghan cricket, the Taliban... 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The reaction highlighted the sensitivity of linguistic issues in Afghanistan, a country with a mix of over 35 languages spoken by ethnic groups including Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras as well as Uzbeks and Turkmen. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In 2018, five female singers were killed in the northwest and in March this year, a popular Pashtun stage singer and actress was shot and killed near Peshawar, allegedly by her husband. Living the dream: Young Pakistani wins over family to let her sing 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z He charged the Pashtun while riding a bright gray pony. Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Pakistan’s port city of Karachi is home to an estimated 7 million Pashtuns, the largest urban Pashtun population in the world, including 50,000 registered Afghan refugees. Living the dream: Young Pakistani wins over family to let her sing 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Jalalabad is not in the Taliban heartland but it is a part of Afghanistan's deeply conservative Pashtun belt. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z The students come from almost every province and include members of the country’s three main ethnic groups, the Pashtuns, the Tajiks and the Hazaras, Mr. Sarmast said. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z To blend in with the mujahideen, Christopher wore a wool Pashtun cap and a baggy brown vest. Meet Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL running for Congress 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z He told me about riding horseback with the Pashtun, helicoptering in for midnight raids, sitting at a base for days at a time with absolutely nothing to do. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z The reaction highlighted the sensitivity of linguistic issues in Afghanistan, a country with a mix of over 35 languages spoken by ethnic groups including Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras as well as Uzbeks and Turkmen. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z The group’s repertory is not protest songs but instrumentals: Pashtun folk tunes and its own compositions. Khumariyaan Performed at Asia Society on Sunday 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z It tells the story of Amir, a privileged Pashtun boy growing up alongside Hassan, the Hazara son of his father’s servant. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z So, I was very drawn to Pashtun culture, and part of that was their tribal code of conduct: Pashtunwali. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “Pashtuns are very strong, but I am showing emblems in a soft way,” she said. Pakistan?s Palette of Blood and Tears 2010-12-17T17:03:54Z The British artist and designer chronicles his life growing up in a devout Pashtun community in the red-light district of 1980s and 1990s Birmingham. Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z We spent days, nights, weeks, and months chatting, and they told me about the history of Afghanistan and Pashtun culture and history. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Pashtuns and some Pashayi make up the bulk of the resistance. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z In her work Ms. Khan uses emblems of Pashtun culture painted in the style of a children’s primer on pages sized to resemble a school exercise book. Pakistan?s Palette of Blood and Tears 2010-12-17T17:03:54Z Only one member of the hidden family in Abbottabad could be seen regularly, a tall man in traditional Pashtun dress and prayer cap who took daily walks inside the compound walls. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z “They call me a fake Pashtun,” she said in an interview. Pakistan?s Palette of Blood and Tears 2010-12-17T17:03:54Z I know we have a bit of that here but, with respect to the people of Birmingham and Newcastle, being a Pashtun seems to mean even more than being a Brummie or a Geordie. Blood, Sweat and Luxuries, Afghan Star and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-20T23:05:00Z A: My first job in television in Kabul was to write an eight part drama serial for our Pashtun audience sponsored by a foreign embassy. Book Talk: Making Soapies in Kabul 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The absence of Pashtun male voices in a novel about the Afghanistan war is a perplexing decision in a novel that is structured to embrace a multiplicity of voices. The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya – review 2012-06-15T21:55:04Z She ended up in communication with someone in Afghanistan who sends her an email in Pashtun, which she sends to the FBI for translation. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Afghanistan has never recognized the porous border that runs through the Pashtun heartland and dilutes the power of the country’s largest ethnic group on both sides. Taliban reject Pakistani claims of unlawful structures, indiscriminate firing at key border crossing 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Afghanistan has never recognized the porous border that runs through the Pashtun heartland and dilutes the power of Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group on both sides. Pakistan shuts key border crossing with Afghanistan after guards exchange fire 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Born in 1952 the son of a civil engineer, Khan grew up with four sisters in an affluent urban Pashtun family in Lahore, Pakistan's second-biggest city. Imran Khan, cricket star turned Pakistan premier, arrested again 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z In a frank political assessment, she told council members that the Taliban regime “remains insular and autocratic,” with “an unaccountable central authority” and an all-male government almost entirely from its Pashtun and rural base. U.N. warns Taliban that restrictions on Afghan women and girls make recognition `nearly impossible’ 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Among the groups of mujahideen who fought the Soviets were young men from the Pashtun tribe who had studied at Islamic religious schools in Pakistan. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Born in 1952, the son of a civil engineer, Khan grew up with four sisters in an affluent urban Pashtun family in Lahore, Pakistan's second-biggest city. Imran Khan, the cricket star who ditched playboy image to rule Pakistan 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The army’s ranks were dominated by ethnic Punjabis and Pashtuns, leaving Gen. Musharraf an outsider even among top officers. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general turned autocrat, dies at 79 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Because Mr. Musharraf was a muhajir, or emigrant from India, he was able to rise above Pakistan’s ethnic and political divides, which sometimes pit Pashtuns, Punjabis and others against one another. Pervez Musharraf, Former Military Ruler of Pakistan, Dies at 79 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Like the Taliban, they took root among the ethnic Pashtuns who make up a majority in the region and in the city. Taliban asks Pakistan not to blame them for violence at home 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Like the Taliban, they found root among the ethnic Pashtuns who make up a majority in the region and in the city. Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z For years, Taliban leaders recruited Pakistanis who, like the Afghan Taliban, were ethnically Pashtun, while Pakistani military authorities tried to drive the militants out. ‘Terrorism Has Returned’: Pakistan Grapples With Attack That Left 101 Dead 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z What really happened is that the hard-liners among the Taliban, those with the harshest Pashtun village mores, have triumphed over more moderate voices and factions. Opinion | In Afghanistan, the lights go out for women 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z And internal security has been a near constant problem due to insurgencies in ethnic Pashtun and Baloch regions. Explainer: Who Pakistan picks as army chief matters far beyond its borders 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The Taliban are hardline followers of the Sunni branch of Islam, and were previously almost exclusively associated with the Pashtun ethnicity. Taliban kill one of their ex-leaders from minority Hazara community 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z It is believed that the predominantly Pashtun movement first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hardline form of Sunni Islam. Who are the Taliban? 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Yet while the totality of the republic’s moral and political collapse has left them with no serious rivals, the Taliban leadership remains a small and insular group, almost entirely Pashtun. The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Resentment soared especially among the ethnic Pashtuns, who had been the backbone of the Taliban. Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z The area is overwhelmingly Pashtun, the same ethnic group to which most of the Taliban belong. Devastating Afghanistan Earthquake Leaves More Than 1,000 Dead 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z A widespread crackdown would exacerbate Afghanistan’s already devastating postwar economic collapse and antagonize the Taliban’s core constituency among Pashtun farmers, impoverishing families that rely on the crop to be able to afford food. Green Energy Complicates the Taliban’s New Battle Against Opium 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The promise made by the Taliban - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power. Who are the Taliban? 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z But in nearby Karte Naw, an ethnic Pashtun area, part of the Sunni majority, most women wear hijabs, or head scarves, that cover their faces. The Taliban Pressure Women in Afghanistan to Cover Up 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z A deputy police chief in southern Zabul province told me of 2,000 young Pashtun men, some former Taliban, who wanted to join the new government’s Afghan National Army. Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z IS has also managed to radicalise some members of Afghanistan's Tajik and Uzbek populations, whereas the Taliban are dominated by the Pashtun ethnicity. Afghanistan pupils in fear after spate of Islamic State attacks 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The Durrand line runs through the region’s ethnic Pashtun population, often dividing tribes and families between the two countries. Pakistan warns neighbor Afghanistan not to shelter militants 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z While he accepted that urban centers are mostly supportive of girls education, much of rural Afghanistan is opposed, particularly in tribal Pashtun regions. Taliban nixes girls higher education despite earlier pledges 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Some residents — mostly Pashtuns — are thankful that the Taliban are taking a hard stance against criminality, a policy the Taliban has long been known for. Taliban Search Operation Echoes Resented U.S. Tactics 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “Combined with the allure to explicitly support Pashtun nationalism, this ideological convergence between Kabul and the T.T.P. terrorist network means that the Taliban are not aligned with Islamabad on two key security issues.” To Preserve Its Own Stability, Pakistan Must Stabilize Afghanistan First 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Hazara women like her didn’t know what to expect from the Islamist fighters, who were mostly from the majority Pashtun ethnic group, and came from a more conservative, rural culture. Opinion | ‘We’ve Never Been Smuggled Before’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Established by the British in the 19th century, successive Afghan rulers have refused to recognize it as the official border, laying claim instead to Pakistani territory known as Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Province where ethnic Pashtuns dominate. Pakistan warns neighbor Afghanistan not to shelter militants 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Large areas on the Pakistani side of the border were out of the control of the government for decades, ruled by fiercely independent Pashtun tribes, whose communities often straddle both sides of the unmarked border. Pakistan struggles to quell violence on its Afghan border 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But members of ethnic minorities have accused the Taliban of targeting them for their ethnicity, adding to their resentment of an interim government that, like the Taliban itself, is composed mostly of southern Pashtuns. Taliban Search Operation Echoes Resented U.S. Tactics 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Like previous Afghan governments, the Taliban is led by Pashtuns, the ethnic majority in a country where minorities have been marginalized or underrepresented for decades. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But Mr. Inqayad’s sentiments contrast with the Taliban’s interim government, composed almost entirely of Pashtun hard-liners who are emblematic of the movement’s harsh rule in the 1990s, and who are perceived as anti-Hazara. On Patrol: 12 Days With a Taliban Police Unit in Kabul 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z A member of the ethnic Tajik minority, he is among only a handful of current officials who are members of neither the Taliban’s religious movement nor its ethnic Pashtun group. Afghanistan desperately needs aid. One technocrat from the former government is key to the Taliban’s efforts. 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Born in the southwestern province of Nimruz to a prominent Pashtun family and educated in Kabul, Mr. Nadery lived through the chaos of civil war while in high school in the early 1990s. An Afghan Official Laments What Was Lost and Looks to What Lies Ahead 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z A jirga is a centuries-old Afghan tradition for decision-making and is particularly popular among ethnic Pashtuns, which make up the backbone of the Taliban. The AP Interview: Karzai ‘invited’ Taliban to stop chaos 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Even though many mid-level security and political officials are Uzbek, most residents viewed the Taliban’s appointment of an ethnic Turkmen governor and a Pashtun as his deputy as an attempt to dilute their community’s influence. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z In Afghanistan, many Shiites belong to the Hazara ethnic minority; the Taliban, a Sunni Pashtun movement, severely persecuted Hazaras the last time they ruled the country. On Patrol: 12 Days With a Taliban Police Unit in Kabul 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z To the south, U.S. soldiers had joined Pashtun guerrillas opening a second front. A bomb, a death, a war's painful legacy: Remembering the first Californian killed in Afghanistan 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z It is one of a handful of Shiite districts in Kandahar, the Pashtun heartland of the country. The String of ISIS Attacks That Killed Three Generations of One Afghan Family 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z “The Taliban wants to use Mahdi for defusing a Hazara-led rebellion against them,” said the activist, adding that “Hazaras cannot trust Pashtuns,” referring to the country’s dominant ethnic group. The Taliban is trying to win over Afghanistan’s Shiites with a 33-year-old Hazara emissary. But many question the group’s sincerity. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Alam played a key role in recruiting more Uzbeks from Faryab and neighboring provinces as well as Turkmen and Tajiks, although their numbers are still dwarfed by the Pashtuns in the Taliban. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z In majority-Muslim Pakistan, where the ethnic Pashtuns and Baloch have long been marginalized, increasing Islamist extremism has resulted in vigilante action against the Hindu minority, who make up just 2 percent of the population. In a Region in Strife, India’s Moral High Ground Erodes 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Sayedabad district is composed primarily of Afghanistan’s dominant Pashtun ethnic group, from which the Taliban are mostly drawn. In Afghanistan, a girls’ school is the story of a village 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Millions of Tajiks live in Afghanistan, comprising its second largest ethnic group, and Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon has criticised the predominantly Pashtun Taliban for failing to set up an ethnically diverse cabinet. Russia-led bloc concludes drills near Afghan border to boost Tajik security 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z The Persian-speaking Hazara, thought to trace their descent back to the armies of the 13th century Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, are considered the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan behind the Pashtuns and Tajiks. For Afghan Hazaras, where to pray can be life and death choice 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “We know these days all the power is with the Pashtun,” Abdullah said. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Most of Afghanistan is Sunni, and ethnic Pashtuns — who make up most of the Taliban’s ranks — are a plurality. Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills Dozens as Shiites Are Targeted Again 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z "Plus, they have been stoking ethnic tensions and playing up local grievances ... Essentially, the TTP is trying to exploit Pashtun victimhood." Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt as Taliban, IS-K go on attack 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z When the Taliban were first in power in the 1990s, they carried out massacres against the community, in some cases in retaliation for massacres of ethnic Pashtuns. EXPLAINER: Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z No up-to-date census data exists, but estimates put the size of the overall Shi'ite community at between 10-20 percent of the population, including Persian-speaking Tajiks and Pashtuns as well as Hazaras. For Afghan Hazaras, where to pray can be life and death choice 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The 33-member cabinet remains dominated by ethnic Pashtun hard-liners and Sunni Muslims, who hold the large majority of the powerful positions. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Most of Afghanistan is Sunni, and ethnic Pashtuns — who make up most of the Taliban’s ranks — are a plurality in the country. ISIS Bomber Kills Dozens at Shiite Mosque in Northern Afghanistan 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Like the provinces just over the border in Afghanistan, Orakzai is home to a predominantly Pashtun population. Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt as Taliban, IS-K go on attack 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z According to Russian media reports, the predominantly ethnic Pashtun Taliban have struck an alliance with one particular Tajik militant group which may be planning an incursion into Tajikistan. Russia says it will protect Tajikistan in case of incursion from Afghanistan 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The fiercely independent Pashtun tribes in these areas had deep ethnic ties with the Taliban and other Islamist militants. Opinion | Imran Khan: Don’t blame Pakistan for the outcome of the war in Afghanistan 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Back then, the Taliban had dispatched Pashtun fighters and officials to rule the province and enforce its ultraconservative decrees. A popular Uzbek commander fought for the Taliban for more than two decades. He was arrested anyway. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Ethnic Tajiks make up more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s population, but Taliban members predominantly belong to the biggest ethnic group, Pashtuns. Russia urges calm between ally Tajikistan, Afghanistan 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Most of the 1,500-plus students are from the same ethnic Pashtun group as the Taliban and come from the northwest region bordering Afghanistan. Radical leader of Pakistan’s Red Mosque emboldened by Taliban takeover of Afghanistan 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z He says the interim government, drawn mostly from Afghanistan’s dominant Pashtun ethnic group, made some additions on Tuesday. The AP Interview: Top Pakistan diplomat details Taliban plan 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Afghanistan is a plurality Pashtun country, but with large minorities of the Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara ethnicities, as well as some Turkmen and a variety of smaller groups. Taliban Complete Interim Government, Still Without Women 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The cabinet lineup released on Sept. 7 included no one from outside the Taliban, with about 90% of spots going to ethnic Pashtuns from the group. Taliban shootout in palace sidelines leader who dealt with U.S. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the leaders were also cautious about Afghanistan’s new interim cabinet, formed almost exclusively of ethnic Pashtuns. Regional powers at summit demand U.S. fund Afghan aid 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Afghanistan encompasses a diverse range of tribes and ethnic groups — including Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras — each with distinct cuts and designs developed and passed down through generations. Afghan women share images of colorful, traditional styles to protest Taliban dress codes 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The cabinet is made up entirely of men and overwhelmingly members of the Pashtun ethnic group that forms the Taliban’s main base of support but accounts for less than half of Afghanistan’s population. Taliban have broken promises on rights, outgoing Afghan envoy says 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z As a fiercely independent journalist who grew up in a family of Pashtun, Afghanistan’s most conservative and numerous ethnic group, she was herself evidence that some things could change. For Afghan Refugees, a Mix of Luxury and Trauma at Albania’s Beach Resorts 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Bachelet expressed dismay at the composition of the Taliban's new government, noting the absence of women and its dominance by ethnic Pashtun. Taliban breaking promises including over women, says U.N. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The main base of Taliban support, Pashtuns comprise less than half of Afghanistan’s population. Regional powers at summit demand U.S. fund Afghan aid 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z I was embedded with a company of soldiers from the Fort Lewis-based 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry division as they ventured out on patrols in this conservative Pashtun province, long a Taliban stronghold. Algeria to Afghanistan: Our reporter’s dispatches from the front lines of the 9/11 wars 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The move comes two days after the Taliban announced an interim government made up mainly of ethnic Pashtun men including wanted terror suspects and Islamist hardliners, dashing international hopes for a more moderate administration. Taliban interim government agrees to let foreigners leave Afghanistan 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Rather, it consists almost entirely of hard-line ethnic Pashtun men from the Taliban’s long-standing inner circle. Opinion | The Taliban shows what it means by ‘inclusive.’ The time for American wishful thinking is over. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z They include Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a Pashtun militant group that has vowed to carve out an Islamic nation from Pakistani territory along the Afghan border. Blinken says he will travel to Qatar and Germany to discuss Afghan evacuees 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z And as an ethnic Tajik, he added, he was concerned about the Taliban, who are mostly ethnic Pashtun, targeting other minorities. Anti-Taliban resistance fighters rely on grit, history and geography to hang onto a sliver of Afghanistan 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Ethnic Pashtuns, the majority group that had made up the backbone of the country, were suddenly disenfranchised. Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The largest share of Afghanistan’s population of 39 million, including many members of the Taliban, is ethnically Pashtun. Afghanistan’s Terrified Scientists Fear Persecution 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Unlike their previous period in power before 2001, the predominantly Pashtun Taliban did seek support here from Tajiks, Uzbeks and other minorities as they prepared their offensive last month. Veteran Afghan strongmen to form new front for negotiating with Taliban 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Afghanistan’s decades of conflict have often tracked along ethnic and tribal lines, with the Taliban seen as dominated by select tribal cadres among the nation’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns. Perspective | Five myths about the Taliban 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The Taliban hosted Osama bin Laden, citing traditional Pashtun laws of hospitality, and after 9/11 insisted that the United States had not offered evidence of his involvement in the attacks. Perspective | Sanctions on the Taliban will hurt Afghan citizens. Here’s how to fix that. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In 2002, the deputy police chief of Zabul, a southern province that was once a Taliban stronghold, sent 2,000 young Pashtun men to Kabul to join the Afghan national army. Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z These Pashtun elders, veterans of the Soviet invasion and the civil war, were in a familiar bind. Opinion | Biden made the hard choice in Afghanistan, and the right one 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Additionally, there are more than a dozen separate and extant ethnic groups, the Pashtuns being only one. Opinion | The decision to end the ‘endless war’ 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z That might have been true in the 1990s, but the Taliban’s recent takeover was partly premised on ethnic and tribal outreach far beyond its Pashtun base. Perspective | Five myths about the Taliban 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But the laws the Taliban promoted — repressive policies toward women — were not so different, if they differed at all, from immemorial customs in many of these rural villages, particularly in the Pashtun south. America’s Afghan War: A Defeat Foretold? 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Churchill recognized that the Pashtun tribes would never honor a Western line through their ancient territories. Opinion | Sherlock Holmes and Winston Churchill anchor a long shelf of cautionary tales on Afghanistan 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s developments have raised questions about the prospect of a possible civil war between largely Pashtun Taliban and anti-Taliban ethnic groups and warlords. Protests, clashes mar first days of Taliban control 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Although he was a Pashtun, the country’s dominant ethnic group, Ghani was seen as an outsider who lacked the political touch to unite disparate factions, and he became more isolated over time. How Ashraf Ghani went from Afghanistan’s president to villain hiding in UAE 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z While the leadership is still dominated by the old guard of southern Pashtun founders, the mid-level commanders and foot soldiers are much more diverse. Perspective | Five myths about the Taliban 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Carter said the Taliban were essentially "country boys" who lived by the so called "Pashtunwali", the traditional tribal way of life and code of conduct of the Pashtun people. The Taliban could be different this time, Britain's army chief says 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Critics accused Mr. Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, of alienating Afghanistan’s other, less numerous ethnic groups. After 7 Years of Failing to Fix Afghanistan, Ghani Makes a Hasty Escape 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z A freelance journalist said he took some documents he thought might incriminate him to a neighbor who was Pashtun, the same ethnic group as the Taliban, and asked him to hide them. Chaos Ensues at Kabul Airport as Americans Abandon Afghanistan 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The government never truly incorporated the rural Pashtun community, from which the Taliban draws its greatest strength. Opinion | We lost the war in Afghanistan long ago 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, the Taliban’s rise has long been portrayed in Western media as a Pashtun issue or an expression of “Pashtun nationalism,” as Selig S. Harrison put it in the New York Times. Perspective | Five myths about the Taliban 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z He was accused by ethnic minorities of championing the ethnic Pashtuns, like himself, seeing himself as a counter to the Taliban, who are mostly from the same ethnic group. Afghan president was isolated before slipping into exile 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Most of their members are Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in the country. The Taliban are retaking Afghanistan. Here’s how the Islamist group rebuilt and what it wants 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z That triggered renewed U.S. engagement in the Pashtun heartland, including areas north of Kandahar. With Taliban again triumphantly ensconced in Kandahar, time circles back on itself 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z After a remorseless offensive in the north in which Herat fell, the Taliban have effortlessly consolidated ground in the south, the group’s traditional ethnic Pashtun base. Taliban advances in Afghanistan ‘deeply concerning’, says Pentagon – US politics live 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Semple has written that the “movement has retained a narrow social base, and its power is concentrated in the hands of mullahs from the Kandahari Pashtun tribes.” Perspective | Five myths about the Taliban 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z With the Taliban’s sudden gains in Kandahar, in the country’s southern Pashtun heartland, and Herat, a vital cultural and economic hub, the insurgents appear to be nearing a complete military takeover. Afghanistan Collapse Accelerates as the Taliban Move Closer to Capturing 2 Vital Cities 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z After the Taliban emerged in the 1990s, the southern and predominantly ethnic Pashtun insurgency faced fierce resistance from militia groups in the north known as the Northern Alliance. Could the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan? Here’s What We Know. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Despite its core leadership being heavily dominated by members of the Pashtun majority, the official said the Taliban wanted to emphasise they incorporated other ethnicities too. Afghanistan war: Taliban back brutal rule as they strike for power 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z “There was a large blast and the whole room started shaking,” said Massoud Ahmad Pashtun, the chief of Kandahar airport, who was present at the time of the attack. Taliban advances into major Afghan cities for first time in two decades 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Equally tricky for Kabul is explaining battlefield strategy in a way that doesn’t offend any of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups, which include Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks. Exclusive-As Taliban advances, Afghan military overhauls war strategy to limit losses 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of 16 men installing a mobile telephone tower in the Kurram ethnic Pashtun tribal district on June 26. Pakistan military rescues 5 telecom workers kidnapped near Afghan border 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Kandahar Province, the main city in Afghanistan’s ethnic Pashtun heartland in the south, was the birthplace of the Taliban during the country’s civil war in the 1990s. Taliban Enter Kandahar City and Seize Border Posts 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z It is a community of ethnic Tajiks that fiercely opposed the takeover by the ethnic Pashtun Taliban. The Taliban’s offensive is prompting Afghans to join the fight: ‘We need to defend our lands’ 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Also in Herat, Kamran Alizai, a Pashtun who leads the provincial council, said he commanded a large number of armed men ready to mobilize at a moment’s notice. Attacked and Vulnerable, Some Afghans Are Forming Their Own Armies 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Most of the Taliban are from the Pashtun ethnic group — and more than half the Pashtuns live on our side of the border. Opinion | Imran Khan: Pakistan is ready to be a partner for peace in Afghanistan, but we will not host U.S. bases 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z She says the headscarf represents her roots as a Sunni Muslim of Pashtun ethnicity. Malala on Vogue cover: ‘I know power in a young girl’s heart’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Some note that it took more than three years to dislodge and degrade IS fighters, many of them ethnic Pashtuns from Pakistan’s tribal regions and Afghans from the northeastern Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. Islamic State degraded in Afghanistan but still poses threat 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z She also joined the Pashtun Protection Movement, a human rights protest group known as the P.T.M., and whose rallies became the focus of a massive crackdown by the Pakistani security forces. She Escaped Pakistan. Now Her Father Has Been Thrown Into Jail. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The U.S.-backed Afghan government is holding thousands of detainees, many of them captured as part of the ongoing war with the Taliban, who are mainly ethnic Pashtun. UN: High torture of detainees in Afghanistan continues 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Gen. Siddiq was born in Kabul or Kandahar — accounts vary — into an ethnic Pashtun family that traced its lineage to the Mohammadzai clan, which ruled Afghanistan for generations before a 1978 coup. Suhaila Siddiq, surgeon, health minister and trailblazer for Afghan women, dies 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z "And Muslim girls or Pashtun girls or Pakistani girls, when we follow our traditional dress, we're considered to be oppressed, or voiceless, or living under patriarchy," she added. Malala on Vogue cover: ‘I know power in a young girl’s heart’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, Mr Osman wrote, the Taliban generally receive support from more rural and ethnically Pashtun communities. Afghanistan conflict: IS links to Kabul student killings cause outrage 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Local people, he said, and eventually ethnic Pashtuns, saw it and the other structures like it in the area as spiritual sites and transformed them into burial sites. An Ancient Hill and Forgotten Dead: Afghanistan’s Haunted Outpost 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z This district, in the Taliban’s Pashtun heartland, is almost completely controlled by the insurgent group. Al Qaeda Feels Losses in Syria and Afghanistan but Stays Resilient 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the Taliban’s 2001 defeat, revenge attacks multiplied, and ethnic Pashtuns, who made up the backbone of the Taliban, were initially harassed and persecuted when they went back to their villages. Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z He calmed tensions between the minority ethnic groups and political figures from the country’s Pashtun majority. In Proud Corners of Afghanistan, New Calls for Autonomy 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z It is common in ethnic Pashtun society for widows to marry their brothers-in-law because of a belief that a widow should not marry outside the family. Afghan woman prays that peace will save her fourth husband 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The ethnic Pashtun border region was for years a haven for militants who fled the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Attacks surge in northwest Pakistan as Afghan peace effort brings shifting sands 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The attacks against the returning fighters also exacerbated ethnic divisions, with most Taliban, who are ethnic Pashtuns, feeling marginalized. Historic Afghan peace talks fraught with uncertainty 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The two countries share a long border, about 1,500 miles, that was drawn by the British in the 19th century and that left ethnic Pashtun tribes split. Border Clashes With Pakistan Leave 15 Afghan Civilians Dead, Officials Say 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Hundreds of ethnic Pashtuns living in Pakistan work in Afghanistan and many Afghans in Pakistan. Afghan officials say Pakistani rockets kill 9, wound 50 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Hundreds of ethnic Pashtuns living in Pakistan work in Afghanistan and many Afghans in Pakistan. Afghan officials say Pakistani rockets kill 9, wound 50 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z According to police, the protesters, backed by the Pashtun Protection Movement, known for its criticism of the Pakistani army, stormed a border checkpoint. Activists: 3 killed as troops open fire at rally in Pakistan 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Among the Pashtun ethnic community, anti-vaccine sentiment was especially rife after the CIA used a door-to-door vaccination effort a decade ago to hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. There was an effective vaccine. An outbreak struck anyway. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “The greater impact of the fence will instead be on Pashtun communities spanning the border, who will lose the ability to cross freely to visit family or do business.” Pakistan Builds Border Fence, Limiting Militants and Families Alike 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z He dresses up for court, wearing elaborate Pashtun turbans with what appear to be tails on the backs. I've spent 20 years on the trail of a 9/11 suspect. Here's what I've learned 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z While the P.T.M. focused on demanding justice for the country’s sizable Pashtun minority, its influence quickly grew larger than the movement itself. Leader of Pakistani Rights Movement Is Arrested on Conspiracy Charges 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The non-violent protests began over the alleged extra-judicial killing of a young man of ethnic Pashtun heritage by police in Karachi. Activist who dared to challenge Pakistan army held 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “We, Pashtuns, will remain non-violent in the face of the arrest of our movement’s leader,” she said, adding that peaceful resistance is ”the major pillar”of the movement. Pakistan arrests human rights leader who criticized army 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The family supports a rights movement among Pakistan’s minority Pashtun movement that is critical of the army’s war on terror. Pakistani court grants bail to exiled activist’s father 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The US Army sought to capitalize, especially on its primary target: Pashtuns. The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Ismail is accused of supporting the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, which campaigns against perceived high-handedness by security forces against the Pashtun community. Pakistani court adjourns bail hearing for activist’s father 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The movement then expanded, demanding accountability from Pakistan's army for alleged human rights abuses against Pashtuns committed during the war against Islamist extremists in the country's north-west. Activist who dared to challenge Pakistan army held 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z It was Naqeebullah's death which inspired Suleman, as well as prompting wider protests against the treatment of the ethnic Pashtun community he was from. The price of speaking out against police killings 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The family supports an ethnic Pashtun movement known as the PTM that is stridently critical of the army’s war on terror, particularly in the country’s border regions. Pakistan silences army’s critics with raids, terror charges 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Afghanistan is an amalgamation of ethnicities and tribes, but Pashtuns represent around 40 percent of the population. The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Tribal and religious customs in such areas, especially among ethnic Pashtuns, forbid exposing women to men to whom they are not related or to the public. Dismal turnout in Afghan election could weaken next government 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z But Ismail came under greater scrutiny last year when she spoke in support of the Pashtun Protection Movement, which defends the rights of the Pashtun tribe in the north-west. Pakistani women's rights activist flees to US 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z She has also joined protests led by an ethnic Pashtun movement that Pakistan’s military has tried to crush. Gulalai Ismail, Feminist Hunted by Pakistan’s Authorities, Escapes to U.S. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Activists with the PTM charge that Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies harass and intimidate ethnic Pashtuns who are critical of the war on terror. Pakistan silences army’s critics with raids, terror charges 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z They considered the Taliban antithetical to their Pashtun values. The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Rallies by the Pashtun Protection Movement group receive almost no coverage at all, despite attracting significant support in the districts bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan censorship: 'Hovering above the mute button' 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Unlike Farsi — versions of which are spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — the Pashto language is spoken mostly by ethnic Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This Afghan ambassador in Moscow mixes diplomacy and Dostoevsky 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The two lawmakers represent a Pashtun group that denounces what it says is the military’s excessive use of force against local tribesmen. Bomb attack kills soldier on patrol in northwest Pakistan 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The two lawmakers represent a Pashtun group which denounces what it says is the military’s excessive use of force against local tribesmen. Pakistan arrests second Pashtun lawmaker over attack on army 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z One main candidate was a wealthy contractor from the Tajik north, the other a professional from the Pashtun south. Analysis | Even without a Taliban peace deal, progress for Afghan women and democracy seems vulnerable 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The killing triggered protests in Islamabad by members of the girl’s family, originally from the Pashtun minority Mohmand region bordering Afghanistan, and other Pashtuns. Islamabad police official suspended following girl’s killing 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The northwest tribal belt, an ethnic Pashtun region near the Afghan border and the epicenter of polio in Pakistan, is deeply conservative, religious and suspicious of authority. Pakistan had all but eliminated polio. Then things went badly wrong. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In Pakistan, the problem is especially persistent among ethnic Pashtuns, including Afghan visitors, refugees and migrants. Pakistan, on verge of eradicating polio virus, faces human hurdles 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Bangash said initial findings revealed that they both belonged to the conservative Pashtun tribe and resided in the same neighborhood. Young Pakistani man, woman slain in suspected honor killing 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The organization campaigns against perceived high-handedness by security forces against the Pashtun community. Pakistani authorities detain rights activist, journalist 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Loni was a leader in the Pashtun Protection Movement, which campaigns against perceived high-handedness by the security forces against the Pashtun minority. Pakistan orders probe into death of activist during clashes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z In Rawalpindi, a large city in Punjab province, water and sewer samples from many poor Pashtun communities have repeatedly tested positive for the polio virus. Pakistan had all but eliminated polio. Then things went badly wrong. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z It is a major hub for Pashtuns who settled there after fleeing conflict in the northwest, or who trade in fruit and vegetables in open-air markets. Pakistan, on verge of eradicating polio virus, faces human hurdles 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z They are Shiite Muslims, while the Taliban are ultraconservative Sunni Muslims, hailing mainly from the majority ethnic Pashtun community. U.S., Taliban Show Optimism in Afghan Peace Talks 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The Taliban, a predominantly ethnic Pashtun movement, strongest in the south and east of the country, now control large stretches of the countryside, where they levy taxes, run courts and control education. Taliban seek image makeover as Afghan peace talks gain momentum 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Younus Qanooni, a senior figure in the main ethnic Tajik opposition group, warned that the election presents a “very dangerous challenge” that could “divide the country” between the Pashtun south and the ethnic-minority-led north. Afghan election, Taliban talks may be on collision course 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Noor Jahan, 30, a veteran vaccinator, made the rounds last week in a Pashtun neighborhood she has visited dozens of times. Pakistan had all but eliminated polio. Then things went badly wrong. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The massacre outraged the world and followed the killing the year before of an estimated 2,000 young ethnic Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan by Taliban rivals. Taliban: 5 freed from US military prison now in Qatar office 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Yet in rural Afghanistan, especially in the country’s ethnic Pashtun areas where the Taliban dominate, many women are not even registered to vote. Candidate: Elections key to countering Afghan conservatism 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Aden is a recent Muslim convert who can speak Arabic, and Decker is an American of Pashtun origin. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z In Afghanistan, some members of smaller ethnic groups say Khalilzad favored his fellow Pashtuns when he previously served in the country. New US adviser to Afghanistan raises hackles in region 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z With the vote just months away, that coalition-building, and the jockeying among Pashtun public figures to lead them, is at a full sprint. Out of the Shadows, an Afghan Spy Chief Joins Presidential Politics 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The group vaulted to prominence after police gunned down a 27-year-old Pashtun shopkeeper in January in the port city of Karachi, home to a large Pashtun community. After controversial election, a tribal rights movement in Pakistan carefully plots its future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For years, Afghanistan’s minority Shiites have endured discrimination and repression at the hands of its larger Sunni, mostly ethnic Pashtun groups. Recruited by Iran to fight for Syrian regime, young Afghans bring home cash and scars 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Ziar Khan warns Aden to simplify herself: the people she will meet are “Pashtuns first, and Muslims only second.” The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. New US adviser to Afghanistan raises hackles in region 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z And he rediscovered his family’s Afghan roots and Pashtun tribal identity. Can Imran Khan fulfil Pakistan’s voters’ hopes and keep the generals at bay? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Security forces also reduced the number of checkpoints where Pashtuns said they were subjected to humiliating searches. After controversial election, a tribal rights movement in Pakistan carefully plots its future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He has mostly shed the playboy image and made public shows of devotion to Islam, building a large political following in northern Pakistan, especially with the conservative Pashtun population. 'Kaptaan' Khan's slog from sports icon to Pakistan's likely next PM 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And, anyway, the acts were not committed by Pashtuns or Afghans. The 9/11 Novel That Finally Understands the Fulfillments of Faith 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Mehsud’s killing helped set off a Pashtun civil rights movement that spread across Pakistan. Roiled by Military Intervention, Karachi Voters Push for Change 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Many other northern political factions are aligning against Mr. Ghani’s largely Pashtun ethnic base, and General Dostum could broaden that support to Uzbeks. Accused of Rape and Torture, Exiled Afghan Vice President Returns 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z In a sign of his sympathy for the Pashtun Protection Movement, a civil rights movement that claims the army supports the Taliban, Khan is not running candidates against its leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Imran Khan starts race to lead Pakistan but can he please the ‘umpires’? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The PTM claims to represent the aspirations of Pakistan’s 30 million Pashtuns, a tribal population whose traditional homeland spans northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, where another 14 million live. Pakistan’s Pashtuns Take On the Army—and Terrorists 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Security forces are stretched thin across Farah province, a huge, rugged and sparsely inhabited region where Taliban fighters still move freely in many districts and enjoy support from some fellow ethnic Pashtuns. After Taliban assault in western Afghanistan, allegations of an Iranian role 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Although the census did not provide an ethnic breakdown, by some estimates, about four million Pashtuns live in Karachi. Roiled by Military Intervention, Karachi Voters Push for Change 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Their Pashtun society considers it the duty of brothers to marry their brothers’ widows — and leaves those widows with little choice but to obey, or lose their children and their homes. She Married 3 Brothers in Family Torn by War 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z At Sunday’s rally, the first in the city since the killings in January, chants of “Justice for Naqeebullah” soon became calls for “Justice for Pashtuns.” Seeking Justice in Pakistan, Pashtuns Stage Defiant Rally in Karachi 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The group, from the Pashtun ethnic minority, is pushing back against what it sees as systematic human-rights abuses by Pakistan’s powerful military and its sincerity in combating all terrorist organizations. Young Activists, Fed Up With Alleged Abuses, Challenge Pakistan’s Military 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z A young Pashtun man was killed by police. In glistening new airport, Pakistan sees ticket to reviving the country’s prestige 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The word was historically synonymous with Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group. Afghanistan’s new national ID card has finally debuted, and it’s already plagued by problems 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He is proud that he is not, as he put it, “a typical Pashtun man.” She Married 3 Brothers in Family Torn by War 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z In the days before the rally, P.T.M. organizers worked in Pashtun neighborhoods across the city to muster grass-roots support for the event. Seeking Justice in Pakistan, Pashtuns Stage Defiant Rally in Karachi 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The word was historically synonymous with Pashtun, the country’s largest ethnic group. Afghanistan launches controversial national ID card 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Its leaders argue that Pashtuns are more victims of the Taliban than the willing hosts often portrayed in the media. 'Are you with the tyrants?' Pakistani Che risks all to take on the army 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z His death ignited protests by Pashtuns, who accused Pakistan’s security forces of racial profiling, seeing all Pashtuns as Taliban simply because many insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan are recruited from among Pashtun tribesmen. Pashtun rights group accuses Pakistan army of abuses 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. A U.S. diplomat killed a motorcyclist while driving in Pakistan, and it’s adding to bilateral tensions 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Much of Karachi’s Pashtun population migrated from the country’s tribal belt, along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, after heavy clashes between the state and the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or T.T.P. Seeking Justice in Pakistan, Pashtuns Stage Defiant Rally in Karachi 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z He demanded that Pakistan’s security forces produce hundreds of missing detainees and stop harassing residents of his native Pashtun tribal belt, where conflicts with Taliban militants have been raging for years. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The rally was organized Sunday by the Pashtun Protection Movement, a group denouncing perceived high-handedness by security forces in tribal regions. Pakistan’s Pashtun tribes stage protest calling for rights 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z While loosely constructed, the Taliban since the death of its supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar several years ago are mostly comprised of ethnic Pashtuns and Arab-speaking nationals with ties to al-Qaida. Q&A: How strong is the Islamic State group in Afghanistan 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z It caught spark after the killing of a small group of Pashtun men, including an aspiring model named Naqeebullah Mehsud who was originally from the tribal areas, by police officers in Karachi in January. ‘Our First Mistake Will Be Our Last’: Pakistani Rights Movement Defies Army 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z An estimated 15,000 people attended Sunday’s rally organized by the Movement for Protection of Pashtuns group. Pakistan tribesmen rally against security forces in Peshawar 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z He organized a 10-day sit-in at the Islamabad Press Club, bringing together Pashtuns to denounce extrajudicial killings, disappearances and other official abuses. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He calls for issuing tribesmen identity cards and an end to disrespect of Pashtuns at security checkpoints. Pakistan’s Pashtun tribes stage protest calling for rights 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z This could lead to the emergence of a Pashtun state straddling Afghanistan and Pakistan. Taliban’s Rare Silence on Talks Charges Up a New Peace Conference 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Majority of Pashtuns in Pakistan, Afghanistan and in Diaspora support #PTM demand of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to publicly share the painful stories of orphans, widows and missing and murdered #Pashtuns . ‘Our First Mistake Will Be Our Last’: Pakistani Rights Movement Defies Army 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Judging from the survivors, the victims of Wednesday’s bombing were Sunnis, both Pashtuns and Tajiks, as well as Hazaras. ‘May God Kill Your Own Son’: Bomb Rips Families Apart in Kabul 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Many Pashtuns have long dreamed of taking back a chunk of Pakistan that was arbitrarily cut off from Afghanistan by the British a century ago. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z In his socially conservative Pashtun community near the border with Afghanistan, the topic is taboo. Pakistan grapples with epidemic of child rape cases, in a society where sex education is taboo 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Pakistan had created the Taliban to fight against Pashtun nationalism and to prevent them from achieving statehood. Taliban’s Rare Silence on Talks Charges Up a New Peace Conference 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The Kurram Agency is a largely Pashtun tribal area on the northern border that is the closest part of the country to the Afghan capital of Kabul. Pakistan ousts terrorists, rebuilds border region 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Both the Pakistan military and ISI operatives are working with the Taliban in Pashtun ethnic areas of Balochistan province in the northwestern part of the country. Inside the Ring: Pakistani covert support for Taliban revealed 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The rally on April 8 was a pivotal moment for the Pashtun Protection Movement, known by its Urdu initials, PTM. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The largest of those is Pashtun, followed by Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek. New Afghan ID cards, aimed at unifying the country, are doing the opposite 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z The last proposal is a risky business – to let the Taliban creat and administer their own "southeast frontier," similar to Pakistan's "northwest frontier" where ethnic Pashtuns enjoy a degree of autonomy. Taliban’s Rare Silence on Talks Charges Up a New Peace Conference 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Almost all areas where support for the Taliban is high are dominated by the Pashtun ethnic group, especially those controlled by certain tribes. Why is the world at war? 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z “In Pashtun areas which are close to Quetta, religious groups are operating madrasas” — Islamic schools, the source said. Inside the Ring: Pakistani covert support for Taliban revealed 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z A surge of anger swept Pashtun communities across the country. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But Abdullah’s comment reflected growing concern about tensions between majority Pashtuns and various ethnic minorities in the run-up to elections, in which ethnic identity and loyalty count more than any other factor. New Afghan ID cards, aimed at unifying the country, are doing the opposite 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z When Pakistan was created 50 years ago, the area inside Pakistan with a Pashtun population was divided from the Pashtuns on the Afghan side of the border. Taliban’s Rare Silence on Talks Charges Up a New Peace Conference 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Many Tajiks see the term as a means of entrenching longstanding Pashtun dominance and refuse to accept the cards. Afghan provincial governor defies Ghani's order to step down 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z In places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where they privileged Sunnis and Pashtuns to exploit tribal divisions, they played favorites adeptly. Review | Have our tribes become more important than our country? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z They take inspiration from nonviolent activists of the past, especially Bacha Khan, a Pashtun independence leader who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in India before the partition that created Pakistan in 1947. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Pashtuns in the tribal areas suffered both from militant attacks and from crackdowns by the army, and those who fled to other parts of Pakistan — like Karachi, in Mr. Mehsud’s case — say persecution followed them. In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z But the effort was haunted by accusations of extrajudicial killings, as it began looking as much like an indiscriminate crackdown on ethnic Pashtun communities as a targeted campaign against the militants who sheltered among them. The Slain ‘Militant’ Was a Model, and a Karachi Police Commander Is Out 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The only other country with continuing transmission of polio is Afghanistan, which had 14 cases last year, most of them in provinces adjoining Pakistan and among Pashtuns, the predominant ethnic group in border areas. Killing of Mother-Daughter Team Shakes Polio Fighters in Pakistan 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Maher doubts that the number is significant, but others suspect that too many children among the mobile populations, including the marginalized Pashtun minority, still aren’t being vaccinated despite ramped up efforts to reach them. "What the hell is going on?" Polio cases are vanishing in Pakistan, yet the virus won't go away 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But when Manzoor Pashteen took the stage at a recent rally in this Pashtun heartland city, the self-effacing veterinarian was transformed into an impassioned firebrand. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “This is one of our major demands: Stop this stereotyping of Pashtuns as militants,” Mr. Ali said. In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Later, Pakistan threw its backing behind a newly arisen Pashtun force, the Taliban. How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The party is dominated by ethnic Tajiks, and it has long accused Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, of ethnic bias. Rupture between Afghan president, regional leader could shake fragile government 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Its programming is mostly in the Pashto language spoken by Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtun, drawing audiences mainly in eastern and southern Afghanistan. An Afghan TV network was attacked. Its wounded anchor went back on the air with his hands bandaged 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Pakistan’s Pashtuns have borne the brunt of cross-border conflicts that have pitted Pakistani troops against both Afghan Taliban insurgents and domestic militant groups. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Simbal Khan, a security analyst and nonresident fellow at a think tank, the Center for International Strategic Studies, in Islamabad, said she was skeptical that the protests would lead to real change for Pashtuns. In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The CIA also turned to a group of rising Pashtun warlords along the Pakistan border who had been active as drug smugglers in the south-eastern part of the country. How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In Kharotabad, a very conservative area in Quetta's west home to Pashtun tribes and Afghan refugees, some of the Chinese women went door-to-door speaking with women about Christianity. Risky road: China's missionaries follow Beijing west - BBC News 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Singh said poverty kept his grandfather in Peshawar, located at the foot of the famed Khyber Pass and dominated by fiercely independent ethnic Pashtun tribesmen. 70 years after Pakistan-India split, Sikhs search for home 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Commingled with a huge Afghan refugee population, repeatedly displaced by fighting and constantly crisscrossing the Afghan border, Pashtuns have often been stereotyped as criminals, insurgents and tribal terrorists. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “It doesn’t portend to become a genuine Pashtun uprising,” she added. In Pakistan, Long-Suffering Pashtuns Find Their Voice 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The Taliban is keeping up attacks in Sunni and ethnic Pashtun regions, too. The Taliban is sowing terror in remote, new areas of Afghanistan 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z On the other side, the lack of any major Pashtun leader in the coalition has made Pashtuns in the north uneasy about the coalition’s intentions. ‘A coalition of killers’: The ex-warlords promising Afghanistan’s ‘salvation’ 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Mainly Pashtun supporters of the government accuse the protesters of being “thugs” and claim that Jamiat-e-Islami, as the largest force within the opposition, is paying them. After a bloody month in Afghanistan, demonstrators demand security reforms 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The new Pashtun movement has received an outpouring of support from Afghans, including a strong endorsement from President Ashraf Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Some analysts said they view him as potentially competing for support among fellow ethnic Pashtuns. After decades as fugitive, Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returns with appeal for peace 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The video, with a Pashtun wedding song popular in Afghanistan playing in the background, showed Levinson complaining of poor health. 10 years gone: No word of ex-FBI man lost in Iran on CIA job 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z In one market, a circular appeared urging people to report anyone who wore Pashtun dress, spoke Pashto or sold items such as dried fruit. Pakistan targets Afghan Pashtuns and refugees in anti-terrorism crackdown 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z My small teams of U.S. soldiers were living in Afghan villages, protected by Pashtun tribes. A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: We must protect our Muslim allies 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The Awami National Party, the country’s largest and oldest Pashtun party, has been especially critical. In Pakistan, a young Pashtun man was killed by police. Another has risen to lead a movement. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The first group of three ministers scheduled to appear included two Tajiks, but after opposition legislators cried foul, the lineup was switched to one Pashtun, one Hazara and one Tajik. Divisions within Afghanistan’s government reach a new crisis point 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z News of her arrest drew sharp criticism from some Pakistani politicians, particularly from parties representing Pashtuns, the cross-border ethnic group to which Gula belongs. 'Afghan Girl' rejects offer to suspend deportation from Pakistan 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z As reports continued to pour in, Pashtun legislators and other leaders spoke up forcefully. Pakistan targets Afghan Pashtuns and refugees in anti-terrorism crackdown 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Divisions at the top of Afghanistan's government deepened on Tuesday after President Ashraf Ghani was forced to reject accusations by his own vice president that he was favoring members of his Pashtun ethnic group. Afghan leaders trade barbs as government splits widen 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The Pashtuns sometimes clashed with other ethnic groups, he said. Born the year the U.S. invaded their country, these Afghan boys have grown up while the war grinds on 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It was Ghani, a reformist technocrat and ethnic Pashtun, who unwittingly triggered the melodrama when he warned that he might dismiss any minister who failed to spend 65 percent of the budget. Divisions within Afghanistan’s government reach a new crisis point 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead, Rahbar and Pashtun, who left home about 2½ years ago, found themselves, like so many refugees, sleeping in parks and doing odd jobs in Istanbul and other Turkish cities. Afghan refugees struggle in Turkey: 'We wouldn't live like this in Afghanistan' 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z On Monday, the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly unanimously passed a resolution condemning the “racial profiling” of Pashtuns on the pretext of fighting terrorism. Pakistan targets Afghan Pashtuns and refugees in anti-terrorism crackdown 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z She flushed as she was presented with, and asked to sign, a document in her native Pashtun language stating that she was being denied entry to Germany. Germany used to be the promised land for migrants. Now, it’s turning back more of them. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Community leaders say the government denies aid to the camp because it doesn’t want to encourage new arrivals and views the Pashtuns from Helmand with suspicion, fearing they maintain ties to the mainly Pashtun Taliban. Born the year the U.S. invaded their country, these Afghan boys have grown up while the war grinds on 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Analysts say the president has concentrated authority with a handful of members of his Pashtun ethnicity, Afghanistan’s largest. In a first for post-Taliban Afghanistan, a grass-roots protest movement challenges the government 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Mohammad Rahami, a Pashtun from Kandahar, joined the fight against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan shortly after the Soviets invaded in 1979, when he was only 16. Journey From Class Clown to Suspect in Chelsea Bombing 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z After the recent bombings, police swept through many Pashtun communities in Punjab and elsewhere, combing markets and going house to house. Pakistan targets Afghan Pashtuns and refugees in anti-terrorism crackdown 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Abdullah is strongly allied with powerful ethnic Tajik leaders, who worry that bringing Hekmatyar into the equation would add another ethnic Pashtun strongman to the tenuous political balance. Afghan government signs peace pact with guerrilla group led by fugitive Islamist 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The refugees were predominantly ethnic Pashtuns and merged well with Pakistan's Pashtun population. The reverse exodus of Pakistan's Afghan refugees - BBC News 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Its population is mainly Pashtun, the ethnic group from which the Taliban derives most of its support. U.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Rahami filed for bankruptcy in October 2005, a decision that for a prideful Pashtun man had to have been tough to make. Journey From Class Clown to Suspect in Chelsea Bombing 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Some posts on these sites mock Pashtuns with vulgar slurs. The fight over a shrine for a tyrannical Afghan king 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z From a domestic perspective, Helmand represents the conservative, ethnic Pashtun heartland and the Taliban’s support base. When War Is Just Another Day in Afghanistan 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z They thought up nicknames for one another — including Mustache, the Big One, Obama and Pashtun. Belgian Court Jails Islamic State Cell Leaders for Foiled Plot 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The author moves between clouds of abstraction and mounds of data—nineteenth-century irrigation methods in Herat, kinship networks in Pashtun financial systems—without readily discernible priorities. Afghanistan’s Theorist-in-Chief 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “He’s a megalomaniac. And according to all of my Pashtun contacts, he’s totally unknown and totally irrelevant,” Rubin says. Orlando Shooter's Father's Bizarre Videos on Afghanistan 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But posts by some Pashtuns and others denounce Kalakani as a brute. The fight over a shrine for a tyrannical Afghan king 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Mateen’s father, from Afghanistan, is a Pashtun, an overwhelmingly Sunni sect. Orlando Shooter Seems to Have Been Conflicted About Sex and Religion 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The historical line is a source of conflict for members of the Pashtun ethnic group, whose homeland straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. ‘He was not a stable person’: Orlando shooter showed signs of emotional trouble 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Of Pashtun and Tajik parentage, he was identified politically with the Tajiks. Afghanistan’s Theorist-in-Chief 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z In some videos he criticizes the Taliban, and in others he credits them for bringing Pashtuns together. Orlando Shooter's Father's Bizarre Videos on Afghanistan 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Herat officials are working to relocate the displaced Pashtuns to a village created in the dusty mountain foothills about five miles away. In Afghanistan, the Taliban isn’t the only group battling for land 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Some of the time he lived in a southern neighborhood of Quetta, Pakistan, in an enclave where he and other Taliban leaders from the same Pashtun tribe, the Ishaqzai, had built homes. U.S. Drone Strike Targets Taliban Leader 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z As many tribal elders stressed to me, militants are motivated by a violent jihadi creed, not Pashtun customs predating Islam. Drone blowback in Pakistan is a myth. Here’s why. 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Hazaras often accuse the country’s dominant Pashtun ethnic group of ignoring the concerns of minorities. Kabul put on security lockdown after protest over power line 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The division left the Pashtun ethic group on both sides of the border and is viewed by some in the region as an unnatural place for dividing people. Orlando Shooter's Father's Bizarre Videos on Afghanistan 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z But there are just 1,500 homes built for the Pashtuns there, leaving about 400 families without an option. In Afghanistan, the Taliban isn’t the only group battling for land 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Under Pashtun culture in Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan, such gatherings are often held to try to reach consensus on how best to resolve local disputes. Pakistan police arrest 14 in ‘honor killing’ of teen said to have helped bride to elope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Until that night, he and his son Shamrez Khan worked as night watchmen for Arshad Khan, an ethnic Pashtun who lived in the compound with his family and that of his brother. How the lives of Osama Bin Laden's neighbours changed forever - BBC News 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z In a parallel with the chaos in Yemen, Pashtuns from the tribal borderlands have traded a drone war that at its 2010 height executed a strike every third day for the squalor of internal displacement. After drones: the indelible mark of America's remote control warfare 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Some of Mateen’s videos are aimed as getting Pashtuns, who live in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, to unite against other rivals. Orlando Shooter's Father's Bizarre Videos on Afghanistan 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Along the path of a new city boulevard being dug, about 1,900 mostly Pashtun families originally from the south live in an illegal mud-hut village known as the Shayidayee encampment. In Afghanistan, the Taliban isn’t the only group battling for land 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z He encouraged her, but the reaction from the rest of her conservative Pashtun family was hostile. Afghan teenager braves threats, family pressure to lead women's orchestra 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z With its mixed population of Shia and various Pashtun tribes, Gereshk had a quirky culture all of its own. Why Afghanistan's Nowruz has been interrupted - BBC News 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z "Greece will offer you accommodation, food and healthcare," read the leaflets which were written in Arabic, Farsi and Pashtun. Greece steps up efforts to move migrants to sheltered camps 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The first attack occurred Saturday morning in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber approached a tribal Pashtun elder who was walking outdoors. At least 27 killed in two bomb attacks in Afghanistan 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z The Clinton administration believed the Taliban’s aspirations were limited to asserting ethnic Pashtun supremacy and were nationalist, not Islamist, in nature. Obama Courts Chaos With His Taliban Fantasy 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Determined to install its Pashtun allies in Kabul, the Afghan capital, Pakistan worked through the ISI to deliver arms and funds to its chief client Hekmatyar. How opium defeated America in Afghanistan 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Something similar has happened in Afghanistan, where sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan have thwarted U.S. efforts to calm Pashtun militants in the region despite 15 years of war. U.S. Steps Up War on ISIS With Strikes in Libya 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Recruitment is especially poor in Pashtun communities in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, raising concerns about a potentially destabilizing geographic imbalance within the military, officials said. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is leaving, but the troops are staying 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “Sacking his chief of protocol is not enough,” said Naqibullah Hakimi, an influential elder from the Popalzai tribe, one of the biggest and most powerful of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan. Afghan president left battling disunity after aide punches elder 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The army’s anti-militant offensive also reached deep into the southern port city of Karachi, where paramilitary Rangers have killed several Taliban commanders who had been hiding in the city’s sprawling ethnic Pashtun slums. Taliban Attack Shows Limits of Pakistan’s Military Crackdown 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “His supporters would say he was not the ruler of any country, but he was the ruler of many Pashtun hearts,” Mr. Siddique said. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He appealed to a secular, left-leaning political tradition among Pashtuns, an ethnic group from which the Taliban also draws support. Out of the mist: gunmen bring terror to manicured lawns of Pakistan university 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Pashtuns were divided between southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, guaranteeing that neither state would be cohesive or stable. How geography shapes international politics 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Taliban forces hold sway in most Pashtun districts, and Hazaras say they face constant pressure to leave. Beheading of third-grade girl ‘was just the spark’ for Afghan minority group 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Haqqani said the Taliban, though cruel, is more palatable here because it consists of fellow Afghans, ethnic Pashtuns and Hanafi Muslims, a mainstream Sunni sect. A new Islamic State radio station spreads panic in eastern Afghanistan 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Both the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban draw most of their members and support from Pashtun communities. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A dozen poets were scheduled at the university on Wednesday morning for a recital of Pashtun poetry intended to honour Khan. Out of the mist: gunmen bring terror to manicured lawns of Pakistan university 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A recruitment drive took place in the Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with small training camps set up along the mountainous border. UK troops in Afghanistan: Timeline of key events - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z He spoke of past ethnic-cleansing campaigns by Pashtun kings who drove Hazaras from their homelands and said history is threatening to repeat itself. Beheading of third-grade girl ‘was just the spark’ for Afghan minority group 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z But the Taliban itself is a local group, with support in the Pashtun communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dealing with the Islamic State demands patience, not panic 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Karachi is home to the world’s largest Pashtun population, and many senior A.N.P. leaders fled the city in 2013 as the Taliban gained power in ethnic Pashtun areas. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Members of other ethnic groups, including Pashtuns — who make up the bulk of the Taliban ranks — and Tajiks were among the protesters in Kabul. Afghan slayings linked to Islamic State touch off huge protests in Kabul 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The mainly Shiite Hazaras have been persecuted in Afghanistan for decades, and thousands were massacred by the Taliban — which is mainly ethnic Pashtun and Sunni — in the mid-1990s, when the Islamists rose to power. Thousands of Afghans protest killings of long-persecuted ethnic Hazaras 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Some critics say Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, is struggling to maintain his reformist stance amid pressure from traditional Pashtun leaders, who view power in ethnic terms and might turn toward the Taliban if rebuffed. Beheading of third-grade girl ‘was just the spark’ for Afghan minority group 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z In the north, Tajiks and Uzbeks combine to form 60 percent of the population, while Pashtuns comprise just 15 percent. In northern Afghanistan, a mix of Taliban, foreign fighters, and soldiers spread thin 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Pashtuns are known for a long warrior tradition, and were feared by British colonialists who regarded the Khyber Pass as a notoriously dangerous area. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z As he spoke, protesters chanted: “We Tajiks, we Pashtuns and we Hazaras are all united.” Afghan slayings linked to Islamic State touch off huge protests in Kabul 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Gechi’s critics, however, contend that the government is legitimizing a warlord whom they accuse of abuse and extortion, particularly directed against ethnic Pashtuns, who, as a group, form the core of the Taliban. Afghan government turns to militias as Taliban gains strength 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Asked whether he is Pashtun - the ethnic group most Taliban belong to - the man says ethnicity is not important. The girl who secretly filmed the Taliban - BBC News 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The area also has more Western ideals, and a very different population than the southern portion of the country, where conservative Pashtun people are in the majority. In northern Afghanistan, a mix of Taliban, foreign fighters, and soldiers spread thin 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Afterward, he pushed for autonomy for Pashtun areas in Pakistan, evoking the ire of national authorities. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The problem with “Kasbah” is that, in the tut-tutting attitude it takes toward Pashtun sexism, it seems to have overlooked its own deeply offensive misogyny. ‘Rock the Kasbah’ hits nothing but sour notes 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, at the same time that the MQM was emerging as a political force, millions of Pashtun refugees from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan arrived in Karachi. Karachi vice: inside the city torn apart by killings, extortion and terrorism | Samira Shackle 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z When he takes his last client to Afghanistan to perform for U.S. soldiers and gets dumped, a twist of fate sees him meet Pashtun girl Salima Khan with a beautiful voice. Murray mixes music dreams, darker matter in Afghan war comedy Rock the Kasbah 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In Afghanistan, it’s still the Pashtun south and east vs. the Northern Alliance. Bringing home the troops 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Even so, Mr. Ghaffar Khan’s message of nonviolence resonated deeply with Pashtuns and others all over South Asia, Mr. Siddique said. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z They were fleeing an offensive by the Pakistani military to flush out insurgents and soon joined forces with a faction of the Afghan Taliban, ethnic Pashtuns like themselves. The Islamic State is making these Afghans long for the Taliban 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Sindhis, Pashtuns and Mohajirs fought over land, influence, and political power. Karachi vice: inside the city torn apart by killings, extortion and terrorism | Samira Shackle 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z This was not uncommon among the tall, strong Pashtun of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The day I met the other victims of extremism: boys brainwashed to kill | Stan Grant 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Summary executions, illegal taxation and other abusive practices have made the militias—and their government patrons—deeply unpopular, especially among the local Pashtun population. In Kunduz, Local Discontent Eased Taliban’s Advance 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Instead of being buried in his ancestral graveyard, Mr. Ghaffar Khan was buried in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in the heart of traditionally Pashtun lands. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Unlike the conflict in Syria and Iraq, which straddles Sunni-Shiite fault lines, in Afghanistan both victims and attackers are typically Sunni Muslims, from the same ethnic Pashtun tribes. The Islamic State is making these Afghans long for the Taliban 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It pushed forward the Taliban, a group of young Pashtun jihadis schooled in radical Islam at Pakistani madrasas. The key to solving the puzzle of Afghanistan is Pakistan 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Most often those they intimidated were Pashtuns, who were often seen as allied with the Taliban whether they were or not. For Afghans in Kunduz, Taliban Assault Is Just the Latest Affront 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The Kunduz province is a bastion of ethnic Pashtuns—the Taliban’s main constituency—in the otherwise predominantly Tajik and Uzbek north. The Fall of Kunduz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He first drew support from the traditional Pashtun areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but became closely allied with Mahatma Gandhi’s Congress Party in the 1930s. Massacre Came as Pakistan University Honored a Hero of Nonviolence 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Most women in Nangahar are Pashtun, like their new masters, and are protected by ancient codes of honor. The Islamic State is making these Afghans long for the Taliban 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z There American Special Forces had built up an ethnically diverse police force, recruiting Uzbeks and Turkmens and placing them in Pashtun areas. A Taliban Prize, Won in a Few Hours After Years of Strategy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z That in turn made Pashtuns more hostile to the government. For Afghans in Kunduz, Taliban Assault Is Just the Latest Affront 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in Swat, have been embroiled in the violence: in Pakistan and Afghanistan, more than a million have been killed, and millions have been displaced. The Imam’s Curse 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Many Afghans find it hard to reconcile such attacks, especially in the Pashtun heartland of Helmand, with Pashtunwali, which prizes hospitality, righteousness, bravery in battle, loyalty and respect for self and others. Afghans See a Collapse of Tradition in a Spate of Devious Attacks 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But other commemorative gatherings reportedly drew prominent Pashtuns — the ethnic group that spawned the Taliban — including some government aides. Some Afghans mourn Taliban founder, though they’re reluctant to admit it 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps more important, the Taliban took care to navigate the fractious ethnic politics of northern Afghanistan, which is largely Tajik and Uzbek, with concentrated settlements of Pashtuns. A Taliban Prize, Won in a Few Hours After Years of Strategy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z As well as disharmony over the peace process, tensions also center on rivalries between the Pashtuns of Mansour's southern region of Kandahar and those in eastern Afghanistan. New Taliban leader moves fast to heal rifts in Afghan insurgency 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Zeeya Pashtoon, the author of an authoritative Pashto-English dictionary, told me that dramatic curses are a common relief valve in Pashtun conversation, particularly among women and elderly men. The Imam’s Curse 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps Ghani has tried to assuage the concerns of his Pashtun supporters who loathe the idea of bringing a man they see as a mass killer to power. Afghanistan's warlord vice-president spoiling for a fight with the Taliban 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “The Taliban connected popular rural Islamic values with a grass-roots Durrani Pashtun tribal rising. They emerged at a moment when important wealthy Pashtun tribal leaders around Kandahar hungered for a unifying cause.” Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The Taliban had traditionally drawn on Pashtuns for its members, but in the north in recent years it has played a canny game of recruiting disaffected ethnic leaders. A Taliban Prize, Won in a Few Hours After Years of Strategy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z He was proclaimed Keeper of the Faithful by his gaggle of devout armed followers, most of whom, like himself, were ethnic Pashtuns and Sunni Muslims. The Ballad of Mullah Omar 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He communicated with his followers via audiotapes or on scrawled notes posted in mosques around the Pashtun south. Taliban leader Mullah Omar's death is announced 2 years after his life in the shadows ended 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In one scenario, he writes about a group of Ghani loyalists, all Pashtuns, making disparaging remarks about the Tajiks, the ethnicity of Abdullah. Afghans flock to Kabul Taxi, a satirical Facebook page that spares no one 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z “Mullah Omar is a Muslim and a Pashtun above all, and so his care for a guest to whom refuge has been granted is absolute,” Scheuer wrote in his book “Osama Bin Laden.” Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It frequently leads to key religious festivals starting a day early for millions of people in the Pashtun north-west who follow the mosque’s lead. As Ramadan approaches, the moon-spotting arguments begin 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Now the virus hits almost only Pakistanis and Afghans – and not all of them, but nearly only Pashtuns, the tribe originally from the mountainous border. The Final War Against Polio 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The Taliban insurgency that ensued wrecked U.S. hopes of quickly establishing the authority of the new government in Kabul, led by Mullah Omar's fellow Pashtun, Hamid Karzai. Taliban leader Mullah Omar's death is announced 2 years after his life in the shadows ended 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z A total of 22 Pashtuns were killed in the attack on an isolated road south of Balochistan’s capital, Quetta, on May 29th. Dark corridor 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “The Taliban established their story so that Pashtuns could recognize it as a revival of old glory,” wrote journalist Steve Coll in his book “Ghost Wars.” Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z "The gunmen lined up Pashtun passengers after checking their identity cards and then opened fire," said the survivor, who the channel did not identify by name. Pakistan Launches Hunt for Bus Hijackers Who Killed 19 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z And not even all Pashtuns, but mostly the Mehsuds and a few other conservative clans. The Final War Against Polio 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z "What was the fault of the Pashtun passengers who were killed in the attack on the buses?" After Pakistan bus attack, worry an insurgency growing worse 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z There are fears of similar arrangements across KP, a province bordering Afghanistan where many Pashtun communities observe purdah traditions so strict that many female candidates do not publish photographs on election posters. Women barred from voting in parts of Pakistan 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Omar somewhat reluctantly became commander of this new movement, his deceptively low-key style making him acceptable to the diverse interests that began to support the Taliban, including major Pashtun tribal leaders. Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Back then it was a backwater, despite being the focus of the ethnic Pashtun homeland of the nation’s kings and ruling tribes. As U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, darkness falls on Taliban’s birthplace 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The Taliban is to the Pashtuns roughly what the Cosa Nostra once was to Italian-Americans: a mix of criminal gang and self-defense group, religiously conservative and quick to violence. The Final War Against Polio 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z "There is a need to wisely handle the situation following yesterday's attack on Pashtun people as this is something that is very dangerous," Ullah said. After Pakistan bus attack, worry an insurgency growing worse 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z The men’s abductors culled the Hazaras from Pashtuns and others, according to witnesses who were allowed to leave, and stuffed them into cars and drove them away. Taliban Are Said to Target Hazaras to Try to Match ISIS’ Brutality 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In 1996, Omar literally wrapped himself in the cloak of the prophet Muhammad, which was taken from a shrine, and appeared before hundreds of Pashtun religious leaders who declared him “Commander of the Faithful.” Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Survivors of the Zabul kidnappings told authorities that the gunmen spoke local languages and appeared to be ethnic Pashtuns from their accents. After suffering under the Taliban, an Afghan minority faces new threats 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Some Pashtun complaints — like being offered nothing but polio vaccine — are being answered. The Final War Against Polio 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Obaidullah and many others were captured as young men in the mainly Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan. Family fears that Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo will be forgotten 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The Pashtun tribal leader and native of Kandahar whom the U.S. helped install in 2001 clearly fell out of favor with his U.S. backers by the end of his term. What Did Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Get in Washington This Week? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Omar, a member of the majority Pashtun tribe, was born into deep poverty in a village in southern Afghanistan. Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is said to have died in 2013 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But Mr. Ghani kept him from campaigning in the south and east, where the Pashtun population dominates. Afghan First Vice President, an Ex-Warlord, Fumes on the Sidelines 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Their members also include ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and Pashtuns, who are all Sunni. Fear of the Islamic State spawns a renegade Afghan militia 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Had Karzai perished in any of these incidents, it “would doubtless have convinced the southern Pashtuns of the futility of resistance to the Taliban.” Post 9/11 CIA chase to topple Taliban and track down a scattering al-Qaeda 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z But it otherwise shares little resemblance to its Pashtun brethren, who launched their revolt from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. As the U.S. mission winds down, Afghanistan’s insurgency grows more fractured and complex 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Gun ownership is common across northwestern Pakistan, which is largely populated by ethnic Pashtuns and includes the restive tribal districts. Training Teachers to Take Aim Against Taliban 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z He was Pashtun, from the borderlands between what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan - and, as such, he was a British subject. The great Kuwaiti cat-meat scandal 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Consider the district judge of Spinbaldak, a relatively populous area on the border of Kandahar and Pakistan deep in the country’s Pashtun heartland. Taliban Justice Gains Favor as Official Afghan Courts Fail 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z "President Ghani didn't want to repeat past mistakes during Karzai's time," said a close aide to the leader, who, like his top security choices, is from the country's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns. Afghan leader seeks to sideline powerful bloc in break with past 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z This time, Mr. Abdullah, himself identified with the Panjshir Valley and the north, agreed to a cabinet in which the three top security jobs were delegated to Pashtuns. Charges and Clashing Interests Mar Selection of a Cabinet for Afghanistan 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Northwestern Pakistan is dominated by Pashtuns, who for centuries have been resisting foreign invaders along a major trading route linking Asia and Europe. Pakistani tribesmen worry they may lose their right to keep guns — and rockets and grenades, too 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The ethnic Pashtun general, who is from the eastern province of Khost and was educated in Britain, is widely seen as close to Ghani, who also is Pashtun. After long wait, Afghan government unveils a new cabinet 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Abdullah’s base is a diverse alliance of Tajiks in the north and Hazaras, as well as a few breakaway Pashtun leaders in the south. Strains Show as Afghan Leaders Unveil List of Cabinet Nominees 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Even under Karzai, a Pashtun, former Alliance members, particularly from the smaller ethnic Tajik community from the province of Panjshir, enjoyed sweeping powers. Afghan leader seeks to sideline powerful bloc in break with past 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z While the most numerous of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups, the Pashtuns are viewed warily by northerners because the Taliban are mostly Pashtun. Charges and Clashing Interests Mar Selection of a Cabinet for Afghanistan 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z For generations, the Pashtun tribesmen who populate the area say they have considered carrying a firearm outside to be as important as wearing sandals — and Pakistan’s government has made little effort to stop the practice. Pakistani tribesmen worry they may lose their right to keep guns — and rockets and grenades, too 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z One lawmaker accused the first lady of ethnic bias and of overlooking Pashtun communities. Afghanistan's first lady steps into public eye with rural aid effort 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The village, like much of the valley, is dominated by Pashtuns, the ethnic group that most Taliban fighters belong to. In a strategic valley, a glimpse of Afghan troops’ future after most U.S. forces leave 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z In Afghanistan, where the report said targeting emphasizes lethal attacks, government corruption, “endemic lawlessness” and the “egalitarian Pashtun structures” associated with the Taliban hindered the effectiveness of efforts, the report found. WikiLeaks Releases Downbeat CIA Appraisal of Strikes in Afghanistan 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The group draws its support in largely Pashtun areas neglected by both the Pakistani and the Afghan state. Why the Pakistani Taliban’s war on children keeps on going 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Here in northwestern Pakistan, the culture of gun ownership can be traced to what the mostly Pashtun tribesmen call their “warrior instinct” and the fact they rarely had to look far to find a weapon. Pakistani tribesmen worry they may lose their right to keep guns — and rockets and grenades, too 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Afghanistan is ethnically diverse, with Pashtuns, the largest group, across the south and east, and a sizable Tajik minority in the nation’s north. For Afghans, Name and Birthdate Census Questions Are Not So Simple 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Accepting the award in Oslo on 10 December, she said she was "humbled" and proud to be the first Pashtun and the first Pakistani to win the prize. Profile: Malala Yousafzai 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In keeping with Pashtun tradition, not a single woman was present — not even the bride. Made Rich by U.S. Presence, Many in Kandahar Now Face an Uncertain Future 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “There are good people here,” continued Nasir, who is ethnic Pashtun, “and there are bad people here.” In Kabul’s Valley of Death, hints of Afghanistan’s security woes Four days after it apologized and removed an online shopping category titled “Fat Girl Costumes,” the retail giant is now doing the same for a particular costume called the “Pashtun Papa.” Wal-Mart apologizes for bearded ‘Pashtun Papa’ costume 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Initially, Gizab belonged to Daykundi, much to the aggravation of some of its Pashtun population, who responded by in effect surrendering control of the area to the Taliban. Taliban return to Afghan town that rose up and drove out its leaders 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z In interviews, both Pashtun and Tajik members of his team said they would not allow Hazaras to get a fifth of the ministries and governorships, especially if they are not qualified. New Afghan leaders face culture clash as they form Cabinet He added his tribal name, Ahmadzai, to more closely identify with Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group. New Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani's transformation and winning strategy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Members of several Pashtun tribes — some with allegiance to the Taliban, which is made largely of the same ethnic group — live in enclaves flanking the road. In Kabul’s Valley of Death, hints of Afghanistan’s security woes Abdullah’s mother was Tajik, but he had a Pashtun father and considers his power base to be in ethnically diverse northern Afghanistan. Ghani named winner of Afghan election, will share power with rival in new government After the first round in March, he sought to extend his appeal to the Pashtun heartland of the south and east, which ultimately contributed to his victory. Afghanistan power-sharing deal ends months of political gridlock 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z A member of an influential Pashtun nomad family, Ghani also faced accusations that he spurned the Tajik minority, which threw most of its support to Abdullah, who is of mixed Tajik-Pashtun heritage. Afghan rivals sign deal on unity government 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Ghani, a former finance minister and World Bank economist, is a member of Afghanistan's biggest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, who make up of most the population in the south and east. Afghan talks for unity government collapse; crisis deepens 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Following the Soviet invasion, the export of the fundamentalist Saudi interpretation of Islam – Wahhabism – fused with Afghan Pashtun tribal code and helped to form the Taliban. To really combat terror, end support for Saudi Arabia 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Ghani is an ethnic Pashtun who draws the bulk of his support from southern and eastern Afghanistan. Ghani named winner of Afghan election, will share power with rival in new government But Abdullah interpreted the marked increase in turnout in Pashtun areas as proof of fraud, and demanded that the votes be disqualified. Afghanistan power-sharing deal ends months of political gridlock 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z He accused the Ghani campaign of planting ethnic Pashtun supporters “to start trouble” in two hangars containing ballot boxes from provinces with high rates of suspicious votes. Delays, fights marred Afghanistan's election recount 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Abdullah is part Pashtun and part ethnic Tajik but draws most of his support from Tajiks, the Hazaras and other smaller minorities, largely in the center and north. Afghan talks for unity government collapse; crisis deepens 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Ghani, a former World Bank official, is a Pashtun who has strong support among fellow members of the ethnic group, Afghanistan’s largest. Afghan presidential recount stalls as Abdullah boycotts process Ghani, a Pashtun, enjoys strong support among the dominant Pashtun populace based in the south. Nervous Afghans near political deadline Along with the threat of violence, the political fight has brought Afghanistan’s ethnic divides back to the surface, pitting the smaller Tajik and Hazara communities against the dominant Pashtuns. Amid Election Impasse, Calls in Afghanistan for an Interim Government 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z They are also worried about a resurgence of violence among the dominant Pashtun and Tajik ethnic groups, although both candidates pointedly courted strongmen from diverse backgrounds. Ashraf Ghani rejects sharing power if he wins Afghan presidential recount Whatever the truth, experts say, the growing spate of killings on both sides amounts to a shadow war that, for now, is limited to Karachi’s Pashtun neighborhoods. Killings Rise in Karachi as Taliban Target Police 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Abdullah, of mixed Pashtun and Tajik descent, draws most of his support from the Tajik community, the country’s second-largest ethnic group. Afghan presidential recount stalls as Abdullah boycotts process But an initial count of a June 14 runoff showed a dramatic turnaround in Ghani's favor, leading to Abdullah's accusation that the Pashtun finance official's backers had massively stuffed ballot boxes to steal the election. Afghan presidential rivals agree to unity government after recount 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Like those countries, Afghanistan has deep ethnic divisions, with Mr. Ghani apparently winning most of the votes of the largest group, the Pashtuns, and his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, winning among Tajiks, their traditional rivals. Afghan Presidential Rivals Agree to Sign a Deal 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Now, some of Ghani’s fellow ethnic Pashtun supporters fear that Abdullah, if he loses, will be given too much power to fill lucrative government posts and will function more like a prime minister. Ashraf Ghani rejects sharing power if he wins Afghan presidential recount Ghani supporters claim that his surprising victory was the result of hard work and an eleventh-hour appeal to his fellow ethnic Pashtun voters, who turned out in much higher numbers the second time. Afghan vote audit delayed again A few mentioned the Taliban, the southern Pashtun insurgents who continue to stage attacks that kill hundreds of Afghans and some Western troops every month. Afghans take time off for holiday but fear for future Abdullah, a former foreign minister, is part Pashtun but associated more with the ethnic Tajik minority. Stop-start Afghan vote audit gets green light, but troubles remain 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Ghani’s camp said its candidate had benefited from a shift of votes among Pashtuns who had supported other minor candidates in the crowded field of the first round of voting. Afghan Presidential Rivals Agree to Sign a Deal 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “The Taliban’s order was final and no one dared to oppose that,” said Muhammad, a 36-year-old shopkeeper, who like many Pashtuns uses only one name. Free of the Taliban, Pakistan’s Pashtun poets revive their craft 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “The Taliban’s order was final and no one dared to oppose that,” said Muhammad, a 36-year-old shopkeeper who, like many Pashtuns, uses only one name. Displaced by anti-Taliban military operation, Pakistani Pashtun poets revive their craft Abdullah is of mixed Pashtun and Tajik heritage but is backed largely by Tajik populations in the west and the north. In Kabul, vote recount delayed in dispute over what constitutes a fraudulent ballot Preliminary results from the vote put former finance minister Ghani, a member of Afghanistan's biggest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, in the lead by about a million votes. Stop-start Afghan vote audit gets green light, but troubles remain 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z On Afghan social media and in the streets, feelings are running high between Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns, and along other historical fault lines. Dodging a Coup in Kabul, For Now 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Abdullah, of mixed Tajik and Pashtun heritage, enjoys the backing of the country’s Tajik community in the north and west. John Kerry’s deal to end Afghanistan’s election crisis is in trouble already But it soon became clear that the balloting was marred by massive fraud, particularly in the southern and eastern provinces where Mr. Ghani has his political base among ethnic Pashtuns. After Afghanistan’s questionable election, a real chance for peace Ghani, a Pashtun whose vice presidential candidate is an ethnic Uzbek, draws support from the Pashtun communities in the south and east. In Kabul, vote recount delayed in dispute over what constitutes a fraudulent ballot Abdullah, of mixed ethnicity, was seen as the candidate of northern Tajiks and other minority groups, although he received support from several prominent Pashtun figures. Loser in Afghan presidential election will have a formal role in new government Karzai apparently tells interlocutors that the United States and Iran are conspiring to empower northern ethnic groups at his expense and at the expense of Pashtuns more generally. Dodging a Coup in Kabul, For Now 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, is popular among Pashtun populations in the east and south. John Kerry’s deal to end Afghanistan’s election crisis is in trouble already American support helped Mr. Ghani and other Pashtuns overcome the resistance of Mr. Abdullah and his allies in the old Northern Alliance in that debate. Afghans to Alter the Government 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Ghani has strong support from Pashtun tribes in the south and east. Kerry, other diplomats focus on audit to resolve disputed Afghan vote 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It thinks Afghanistan vies for the affections of ethnic Pashtuns living in Pakistan. Double games 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Abdullah, a former anti-Taliban resistance fighter, draws his support mainly from the Tajik minority in northern Afghanistan while Ghani, a former World Bank economist, represents Pashtun tribes in the south and east of the country. Kerry faces uphill battle to defuse Afghan election standoff 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Like most of the refugees, he is a Pashtun. Pakistani anti-terror offensive has forced 700,000 people to flee homes, U.N. says He was a southern Pashtun, and so he put an ethnic Tajik in the No. 2 spot, and ensured that leaders of the Hazara and Uzbek minorities had prominent roles. Afghans to Alter the Government 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z His father is a Pashtun, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, while his mother comes from the Tajik minority. Kerry, other diplomats focus on audit to resolve disputed Afghan vote 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Ghani, meanwhile, owes much of his support to fellow Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group, who have historically ruled the nation. Abdullah Abdullah Stops Short of Declaring an Afghan Government 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Ghani, for his part, has strong support from Pashtun tribes in the south and east. Afghanistan's Abdullah rejects election result as 'coup' against people 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Abdullah, a former foreign minister who fought against Soviet forces, is of Tajik and Pashtun ethnicity. Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah preemptively rejects election results Mr. Ghani, meanwhile, is of Pashtun ethnicity, the country’s largest, and has garnered widespread backing from that community. Western Officials Press for Audit of Afghan Presidential Vote 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The Pashtun are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and the Tajiks the second largest. Afghan election results delayed amid fraud accusations 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z While fraud was committed on both sides, he left he would not get a fair shot in the runoff against his opponent, Mr. Karzai, who is also a Pashtun. Abdullah Abdullah Stops Short of Declaring an Afghan Government 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z He cites an unlikely tripling of turnout in provinces such as Khost, where the Pashtun ethnic group is dominant. West needs to insist on a credible process for counting votes in Afghanistan His rival, former finance minister Ashraf Ghani, is a Pashtun who commands widespread support among the Pashtun populations in the country’s southern and eastern regions. Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah preemptively rejects election results While official results have not been reported, both campaigns believe that Mr. Ghani is leading, thanks to a surge in voter turnout in the country’s Pashtun areas. Candidate Says Recordings Show Afghan Election Was Rigged 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z His aides say that turnout for the run-off in some Pashtun areas was three times higher than in the first round. Afghan election results delayed amid fraud accusations 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the ethnic Pashtun region, the base of some of the country's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants. Panicked refugees pour out of Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Ghani belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group, believed to be Afghanistan’s largest, while Abdullah is of mixed heritage and is often associated with the Tajik minority. Afghan presidential election thrown into question as Abdullah disputes vote counting |
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