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Gandhara
April 24, 2018
Two Pashtun tribes are helping the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to stabilize a stretch of their long border, where recent clashes have left ... Malik Haji Hussain, a Turi tribal leader whose Mali Khel clan have lived peacefully along the Zazai, says they are trying to resolve the border dispute.
Global Village space (blog)
April 23, 2018
His movement is creating excitement and suspicion; appreciation and loathing in a similar measure, creating new divisions among the Pashtuns who are already split by tradition in clans and sub-clans much to the detriment of their own interest. Besides, his frequent change of goalposts is fuelling nothingÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
April 18, 2018
THERE are many ambiguities and confusions associated with 2,430 km long border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, popularly known as Durand Line. There is a complicated history of this border which remains bone of contention between the two neighbours. Though the Durand Line is accepted as aÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 15, 2018
Strong Pashtun tribal leadership at the clan level in the east has been coerced whereas as that of the south has been engaged with a 'carrot and stick' policy under which some elders have cooperated to win advantage over local rivals. Generally, however, relations with the tribal elders have not been goodÃâà...
Gandhara
April 11, 2018
As the capital of mainly Pashtun-populated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the city of 2 million is considered the epicenter of Pashtun politics. The enthusiastic turnout showcased the aspirations of an estimated 40 million Pashtuns in Pakistan who want peace and prosperity after decades of regional andÃâà...
The Nation
April 6, 2018
Pashtun and Gujjar populations have relatives and clans in Pakistan. The conflict inside Afghanistan directly impacts Pakistan's economy and people. On 4 September 2009 an American F-15E fighter engaged Southwest Kunduz killing 142 civilians collected around a fuel tanker stolen from a NATO facility.
U.S. News & World Report
March 30, 2018
Another family friend, Jawad Iqbal Yousafzai, who is from the same Pashtun clan as Malala, said the family also visited a local army cadet college. The Pakistani army wrested control of Swat back from the Taliban in 2009 and the area remains mostly peaceful, but the militants still occasionally launchÃâà...
The Independent
March 28, 2018
The wall of Major General Nick Carter's office in Kandahar displayed a chart showing the Pashtun tribes, clans and sub-clans of southern Afghanistan. Bewildering in its complexity, it eventually overflowed into the next room. The general, however, was adamant that the intricate level of information wasÃâà...
The Wire
March 12, 2018
More importantly, Pashtun nationalist politics in Pakistan has always been led by Pashtuns like the great Abdul Ghaffar Khan aka Bacha Khan or the ... Additionally, the FCR affords the state the power to inflict collective punishment on the Pashtun tribes, clans or families for the offences committed byÃâà...
Firstpost
December 31, 1999
The Pashtuns are angry, and it's been a long time coming. The wave of resentment against the years of exploitation resulted in one of the largest protest movements in Pakistan in a decade when thousands came together in Peshawar on 8 April in support of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). It is alsoÃâà...
