Since the formation of the Afghan National Unity Government in 2014, Kabul has used “Pashtun Diplomacy” as an instrument to bring the bilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship back on track and make ...

The idea of secularism in Afghanistan dates back to the 20 century. Historically, the Pashtun political elite in Afghanistan paid attention to secularism. Although there is no accurate survey on the ...

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 ...

Villagers in the northwest Pakistani village of Shah Hassan Khel no longer gather to take in a volleyball match or two after a long day in the fields. The Taliban put an end to that tradition seven ...

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 ...

Supporters of Pashtun Protection Movement take part in a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday April 22, 2018. Credit: AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary The past few months have transformed my life. Amid the agonies ...

I recently attended a celebration at a banquet hall in Toronto. A beautiful young woman wearing a colorful ethnic dress was standing on the brightly-lit stage. Next to her was a table, on which sat a ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

Haniya Aslam was sitting in her family home in the turbulent, deeply conservative North-West Frontier province of Pakistan in October when a deafening blast shook the neighborhood, rattling doors and ...