Pashtun News

23 killed in Parachanar blast

PESHAWAR: At least 23 persons were killed and more than 100 other injured as a result of high intensity car bomb explosion in most busy and congested Bazaar at Parachinar, headquarter of Kurram Agency on Friday. The killed persons included two women and a baby girl.  Conditions of several injured stated precarious and on such grounds, increase in number of ...

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Punjab; a forbidden land for Pashtuns

PUNJAB: The University of Punjab is the largest and one of the most prestigious institution of Pakistan. From the recent terror activities Islami Jammiat Talaba (IJT) has confirmed its connection to the terrorist organization that was strengthened during military rule in Pakistan. It seems like it is becoming a daily routine in Pakistan that this terrorist organization is working on ...

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Put full end to Afghan refugees persecution: Pashtun leader Asfandyar Wali Khan told PM Sharif

KABUL: The Pashun nationalist has came hard over Pakistan’s duplicity policy against Pashtun communities and Afghan refugee living in Punjab province. The Chief of Awami National Party (ANP), Asfandyar Wali Khan has sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, complaining against the ongoing harassment of Pashtuns and Afghan refugees by the Punjab police. The letter highlighted ...

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Pakistan could not be a good neighbor to Afghanistan; Pakistan-Afghanistan relations expert and Ph.D scholar, Wahid Watanyar speaks to The Pashtun Times

HEIDELBERG: In the given circumstances, Pakistan could not be a good neighbor to Afghanistan; Pakistan-Afghanistan relations expert and Ph.D scholar, Wahid Watanyar argues in an exclusive interview with The Pashtun Times. THE PASHTUN TIMES

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Pashtunland inside Pakistan is occupied by Punjabi Army since 1947, Riaz Afghan Pir tells THE PASHTUN TIMES in an exclusive interview

There was time when Punjabi army was dreaming to occupy Kabul, but today they are worried about their survival in general: Riaz Afghan Pir Pashtunistan Freedom Movement (PFM) is a new organization of Pashtuns. This organization is struggling for free and independent Pashtun state-Pashtunistan. Riaz Afghan Pir, the exiled leader of Pashtunistan Freedom Movement in London told THE PASHTUN TIMES ...

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Hinduism in FATA: Minority religions fading as ETPB appropriate worship places in FATA and elsewhere

PARACHINAR: (BY ANWAR ZEB) Maria Kumari lowers her head and touches the tip of her nose with her index finger, She lips moving silently in prayers. She is offering the Kamaya Karam – a religious prayer to get her wishes granted. Her whole family pray in the upper story of their house instead of a Mandar, or a temple for ...

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Punjab government asks the public to keep close tabs on Pashtuns

Crackdown on Pashtuns is on the directive of Punjab government: Punjab police LAHORE: In a clear display of racial bias, citizens have been asked to report any persons of Pashtun descent to the Punjab police as part of an ongoing crackdown launched against terrorists in the province after the February 13 Mall Road bombing. Claiming that people belonging to the ...

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Pashtun leader and ANP chief ´Asfandyar Wali Khan´ wants Fata-KP merger by March 12

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan has warned that his party will stage a sit-in in Islamabad if Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) is not merged with Khyber Pakht­unkhwa province before March 12. Speaking at a public gathering here on Tuesday, he demanded that the federal government announce a decision on the merger of Fata with KP ...

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Ajmal Khattak: The commemoration of 7th death anniversary

Ajmal Khattak, the veteran Pashtun politician, poet, writer and former president of Awami National Party, died in penury on 7 February 2010, after six decades of unremitting political struggle in Pakistan for the political and economic autonomy of the Pashtun people, sliced off by the British-Indian Empire in 1893 from Afghanistan.  Ajmal Khattak was politically active during his student life. ...

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Bacha Khan: A Messenger of Nonviolence

The society is the collection of individuals. The communication between or among the individuals in society is under some kind of established ethos known as the social order. Therefore, when the individuals communicate with one another, then conflicts are inevitable. These conflicts are resolved through two ways. One is violence and the other is non-violence. The entire history is bear ...

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