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From steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in Aug 1963, Martin Luther king Jr. made a historical speech in front of 250000 people which is still being remembered under the title “I have a dream”. When prompted by Mahalia Jackson’s cry; “tell them about the dream, Martin!” he presented his dream of liberty and equality in these words; “I ...

کله چې د کافرستان په کالاشو قوم کې یو کس مري نو د هغه د قبیلې، کلي او کور خلګ د عقیدې، مذهب او کلتور له مخې تر څو ورځو پورې پر مړي سندرې وايي، ډولونه وهي او اتڼونه کوي، خو بختور به هغه وي چې دا لړۍ ورباندې تر ډیره وغځیږي، تر څو د مړي اروا خوشحاله او ګناهونه یې ...

The struggle against violence that we confront in the post 9/11 world cannot be effectively and expediently won if we do not shatter the clout of toxic masculinity Very few people have written on the Pashtun long march. The marchers had not only gathered in Islamabad against post-9/11 politics and the security regime in the country but also to reject ...

  د پاکستان قامي شاعر سر علامه محمد اقبال د پښتنو ليکوالانو او محقيقينو د نيوکو سره مخ دی او داسې پوښتنې يې راپورته کړي چې “شاعر مشرق” په کومو موضوعاتو لاس ازمېيلی دی دا د هغه خپل فکر نه بلکه د نورو مفکرانو خيال او فکر يې په خپل نوم اړولی دی. په علامه اقبال دغه رنگ تورونه د ...

Lahore: “We are asking state institutions to act in accordance the country’s constitution. Is that an anti-state demand?” Manzoor Pashteen, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, asked a gathering of students from various colleges and universities of the city on Tuesday. “If that is so, then are the constitution and the laws drafted under it also anti-state?” he followed ...

When the military operation was launched in Waziristan in 2003, its implications started telling its side effects. In 2005, the situation was if you had spoken against the Taliban your dead body would have been thrown away. And that too, beheaded. Your hands cut off. Your face defaced. Your ears severed. If someone used to dare speak against the military ...

ہمارے گُھپ اندھیرے کا سفر اسی دن شروع ہوا تھا جب دو ہزار نو کو جنوبی وزیرستان کے محسود علاقے میں فوجی آپریشن کے دوران میرے خاندان سمیت پورے محسود قبیلے کو گھر بار چھوڑنے پر مجبور کیا گیا۔ جہاں تک میرے علم میں ہے کہ ہمارے پانچ لاکھ آبادی پر مشتمل محسود قبیلے کے ہر خاندان نے طالبان، فوجی ...

Last month, the grievances of millions of ethnic Pashtuns echoed in Pakistan’s capital as thousands participated in a 10-day sit-in to demand rights and an end to unlawful killings, impunity, harassment, racial profiling, and landmines. The protest has become a mass mobilization for what its young leaders say is an attempt to change security policies that have turned their homeland in the northwestern Federally ...

LASHKARGAH: A female Pakistani doctor was brought to southern Helmand province through irregular channels to treat women patients against a monthly salary, however she was not only denied the promised money but also subjected to violence and repeated rape by the Afghan man who staged the deceive for several months. How was Dr. Anesa brought to Afghanistan? Dr. Anesa, not a real name, ...

A top US official has said President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has offered the Taliban group for participation in peace talks as the official insist that the offer did not mean that the group should surrender. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs told reporters that President Ghani offered a dignified process during ...