LAHORE, Pakistan — On Jan. 13, the police in Karachi, Pakistan, claimedto have killed four militants suspected of having links to the Islamic State. Rao Anwar, the officer leading the operation, said that the men had opened fire on the police ...
Read More »Nobody can sag PTM’s confidence, says Manzoor Pashtun
ZHOB: The key member of Pashtun Takhafuz Movement (PTM) Ali Wazir said that after Zhob convention their strength and confidence has gone many notches higher. Talking to The Pashtun Times, he thanked the Pashtuns of Zhob who turned out in a ...
Read More »Pashtuns also have a dream
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 ...
Read More »War, masculinity, and the Pashtun Long March
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 ...
Read More »‘We ask the state to honour its constitution. Is that an anti-state demand?’
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 ...
Read More »Manzoor Pashteen narrates in LUMS how did he start the Pashtun Protection Movement?
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, ...
Read More »Pashtun protest sparks debate about Pakistan’s counter-terrorism policies
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 ...
Read More »President Ghani offered Taliban peace talks, not surrender: US
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 ...
Read More »Missing persons’ saga: Assistant Professor has gone missing since 2016
BANNU: Saadullah Shah, a resident of village and post office Bizenkhel, district Bannu Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has gone missing since 2016. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Government Post Graduate College Bannu. A letter and more information has ...
Read More »Collision inescapable if Parliament doesn’t end “state within state”: Farhatullah Babar
The upcoming general elections may result in a referendum against the judiciary. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Tuesday a state within the state is running, and there is a perpetual conflict between the two. He said if ...
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