A retired schoolteacher, Fazal Zaman Shalman, locally known as Pakhtun Ustaz, listens to an old Pashto song on a historical gramophone displayed in a private museum he established some two decades ago ...

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Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand line have been at the receiving end of some of the most grotesque and intense violence by the Taliban. In this July 14, 2021 file photo, supporters of the Taliban ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington, and joining us now from London is Muhammad Junaid. He’s a researcher, a PhD student, and he is studying the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Numbering more than 25 million, Pashtuns are the largest tribal group in the world. They are also by far the dominant ethnic group in the Taliban. The center of gravity of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MADHEY BABA, Pakistan — Approximately 3 million people have fled the fighting in Dir, Buner and the Swat Valley over the past month, the largest migration in ...

Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi attended a traditional Pushtun dance event at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad today. The event was organized by the Pashtun Council, where he joined the Pashtun ...

Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan. Ayaz lives near Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s ...