Author Archives: The Pashtun Times

Islamabad sit-in: Pashtuns decry security forces suppressive policies in Pashtun belt

EDITORIAL: Pakistan, if, was made by our forefathers, the forefathers of Pashtuns, and if it was their dream, they wouldn’t have made such a Pakistan where their children are not safe, where their children are being bitten by terrorists, where those responsible for security are pushing them into the deadliest tunnel of insecurity, terrorism and eventually made homeless. They wouldn’t ...

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دغزاله جاوید پخواني خاوند جهانګیر بله هنرمنده سنبل هم وژلې: پولیس

پولیس وایي ددپښتو دسي ډي ډرامو پیغله هنرمنده سنبل په مردان کې په یو وسله وال برید کې وژل شوې اؤ وژونکي دپيښې له ځایه تښتیدلي‌ دي. د وژل شوې هنرمندې نیکه خبریالانو ته ویلي سنبل دغزاله جاوید پخواني خاوند جهانګیر اؤ دهغه ملګرو وژلې ده سنبل چې دمردان دشیخ ملتون په ټي سیکټر کې میشته وه په سي ډي ...

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Theatre actor Sumbul Khan shot dead in Mardan

PAKISTAN: A female actor based in Mardan was shot dead on Saturday. According to local police, Sumbul Khan was fatally shot by three armed men who had broken into her house in Sheikh Maltoon Town and demanded that she accompany them to perform at a private event. The men opened fire when Sumbul refused and fled the scene after killing ...

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Afghan President rejects talks with group involved in Kabul bombing

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday ruled out the possibility of talks with culprits behind recent bombings and terrorist attacks in capital Kabul. Ghani expressed the view during his address at the general assembly meeting of the High Peace Council (HPC) here. One hundred and three people were killed and 235 injured in ambulance-bombing near Sadarat Square in Kabul last week. ...

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The power of social media

It was only with the blessings of various social media platforms that not only declared Mashal Khan innocent in the eyes of the public but also forced the authorities to investigate and arrest the people allegedly involved in the dastardly act. The public outcry at the injustice meted out to Zainab Amin of Kasur and Naqeebullah Mahsud from Waziristan recalls ...

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د نقيب مسود د وژنې پرضد د اسلام اباد په غونډه کې زرګونو کسانو ګډون کړی

د فاټا او نورو سيمو ځوانانو، مدني او سياسي فعالانو په اسلام اباد کې په يوه لويه غونډه کې غوښتنه کړې ده چې د نقيب مسود په وژنه کې تورن پوليس افسر راو انور ته دې ژر تر ژره و نيول شي. دا غوښتنه د هغه لاريون په پای کې وشوه چې د جنورۍ پر ۲۶مه له ډېره اسماعيل خانه ...

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#PashtunLongMarch: Social media is abuzz with posts #PashtunRejectStateTerrorism

Media blackout of Pashtun sit-in condemned. Activists claim state following ‘racist’ policy against Pashtun community. ISLAMABAD: A sit-in by the Pashtun community in front of Islamabad Press Club against the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud and alleged state oppression has entered its third day. Despite electronic media’s blackout of the protest, social media is abuzz with posts expressing solidarity with the protesters. ...

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Radicalisation at universities

The National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism has a 20 point agenda; none among them talks about the radicalization in public or private sector universities or colleges. The killing of a college principal on January 22 by one of his students in Charsadda over perceived blasphemy is yet another grim reminder that how distorted interpretation of religion is vigorously being ...

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Pashtun Spring in Islamabad demands an end to Pashtuns’ genocide

Pashtun Spring in Pakistan; ‘Pakistan’s security agencies conduct slow motion Pashtun genocide and sponsor terrorism in Afghanistan’. The Pashtun Long March has reached Islamabad and staged a sit-in in front of press club, wanting Justice for Naqeeb Mahsood, full stop to Pashtun genocide in Pakistan, human rights violations in FATA and Pakistan imposed terrorism and militarism, but it was totally ...

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Dead end of the Afghan policy

In recent times Pakistani political and military leadership has come around to the position where it is publicly accepting the fact that General Zia’s policy of supporting private Jihadist networks in 1980s was actually a fassad (turmoil) as according to them Jihad is  sole domain of the state. Not only that. From General Musharraf’s “enlightened moderation” after 9/11 to the ...

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