Pakistan's military establishment has long accused a Pashtun rights movement that calls for end to conflict along the border ...

Here is a brief overview of the major ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The Pashtuns are Afghanistan’s biggest ethnic group, making up more than 42 per cent of the population. The group -which is ...

Just like in other cities, operations against Afghan nationals are currently ongoing in Karachi as well however, a common ...

The BBC's Rachel Reid has been meeting some of the victims: The tribal honour of Pashtuns living in Afghanistan is bound up with the role of women within the society. Although growing numbers of ...

While its membership is drawn from Afghanistan's major ethnic groups (Pashtun, Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek, and one religious minority, Shia), and it is led by the southern Pashtun leader Hamid ...

Afghanistan's demographics have fluctuated over the years as a result of refugee flows, but ethnic Pashtuns are presently thought to account for about 38 percent of the total population and ...

Several Pashtun nationalist parties have denounced Pakistan’s continuing deportation of Afghan refugees, and called on the ...

President Karzai has failed to make the reconciliation process all-inclusive and bring on board, especially, the non-Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan and even those Pashtuns who have been threatened ...

Pakistan’s mass deportation of Afghan refugees sparks international concern over human rights violations and legal protections.

Afghanistan's modern political dispensation, run by the IEA after seizing power militarily in 2021, is a quasi-tribal arrangement with Pashtun religo-ethnic nationalism as dominant force/strand.