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Activists raise concern over persecution of ethnic minorities by Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
They raised concern over the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistan against Baloch, Sindhi and the Pashtuns, and against the Uyghur Muslims by China.
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Taliban has 'reverted to exclusionary, Pashtun-centred policies of late 19
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The UNSC report said that the Taliban under the leadership of Hibatullah Akhundzada has "reverted to the exclusionary, Pashtun-centred, autocratic policies of the Taliban administration of the late 1990s."
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"They can kill me at any time": Pak journalist recalls kidnapping, alleged
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The 40-year-old said the torture only stopped when he agreed to record a video pledging to stop criticising the powerful Pakistani military and the pro-government terrorists that are allegedly on its payroll.
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Pakistan: Protest over missing persons, target killings on Tuesday, says P
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"On 18 April 2023, Tuesday at 2 pm, there is a protest against missing persons and target killing in Khar Bazar Main Chowk, Bajaur. Looking forward to everyone's participation," Pashteen tweeted.
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Pashtuns seek world's attention to address their untold sufferings in Paki
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Pashtun civilians are deliberately mislabelled, harassed, and used as a political tool by Islamabad in order for the country to earn international praise for supposedly combating terrorism.
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Tribal communities facing confusion, dislocation ever since FATA-Khyber Pa
Updated : 3 years ago IST
With Pakistan wanting greater control over them, the people are suspicious that a greater agenda is at play. They are afraid to become another helpless appendage of Pakistan, just like Gilgit-Baltistan or Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, reported The Pakistan Military Monitor.
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Pashtun activist at UN exposes Pakistan's ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In his intervention Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi said, "We would like to turn the council's attention towards a deteriorating security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan having grave implications for the basic fundamental rights and lives of Pashtun ethnic minority."
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Pakistan: PTM chief says demanding restoration of peace not treachery but
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The remarks by Pashteen came while he was addressing a gathering in Kabal tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district on Monday. The gathering was organised to welcome Member of National Assembly (MNA) Ali Wazir, a PTM leader, after his release from prison.
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Pashtuns subject to extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances in Pak
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Despite unprecedented efforts of the Pashtun community to bring justice to Mehsud, his killers were scot-free in an extremely dubious legal proceeding. Rao's acquittal is another example of how the Pakistani state authorities, including the judiciary, brazenly discriminate against the minori
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Comments of Pak Ambassador to UN on Pashtuns disgraceful, he should apolog
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Munir Akram had in a UN meeting said that the restrictions being put by the Taliban on Afghanistan flow not so much from a religious perspective as from a peculiar cultural perspective of the Pashtun culture.
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Pashtun activists stage protests across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against Rao Anw
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Deeply angered over the acquittal of former Senior Superintendent Rao Anwar in the Naqeebullah Mehsud's murder case, the members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) staged protests across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dawn reported on Thursday.
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Pak: Pashtun activists arrested for demanding release of Ali Wazir
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi Police on Sunday booked several leaders and workers of the Pashtun Tahfuzz Movement (PTM) in an abetting mutiny case after they held a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club demanding the release of MNA Ali Wazir, the Dawn reported.
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