ISLAMABAD, May 28 (Reuters) - Human rights groups have called on Pakistan to investigate the killing of three people by the military during a protest by ethnic minority Pashtun people against ...

HARIPUR, PAKISTAN -- -- HARIPUR, PAKISTAN -- This nation's squabbling lawmakers celebrated a rare moment of unity this week, easily approving constitutional changes to empower Parliament and dump ...

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 ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested a young and charismatic rights activist from the Pashtun community, the nation’s largest minority group, who has been a thorn in the ...

Reports from northwestern Pakistan indicate that the authorities have arrested a journalist and 22 activists of a civil movement campaigning for rights and security for Pakistan’s Pashtun minority.

Pakistani security forces have detained and forcibly expelled a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, Sanna Ejaz, from the restive province of Balochistan. Ejaz is a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz ...

Afghanistan has never bowed down to anyone. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States could defeat it. This becomes even ...

The recently announced Afghan government is made up of a dangerously mutated strain of the Taliban that includes Sirajuddin Haqqani, the minister of the interior, who controls the police and other ...