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2014 Peshawar attack was carried out by terrorists but facilitated by Pak
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The TTP created havoc in Pakistan with several attacks between 2007-2014. The TTP members had fled to Afghanistan after Islamabad launched widescale operations against the group following the Peshawar attack. But recent Pakistan media has published reports that suggest the resurgence of the
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Pak rights group condemns FIR against Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen has been booked on terrorism charges for making a speech on the state's reluctance to criminalise enforced disappearance and arbitrary detentions.
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Pakistan: PTM leader Pashteen booked on terrorism charges for speech on ex
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen booked on terrorism charges for speaking out about state reluctance to criminalise enforced disappearance.
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Pak: Awami National Party calls for giving rights to Pashtuns, says exploi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], October 23 (ANI): Atrocities against Pashtun ethnic minorities should be stopped and they must be given the right to use their resources, the central secretary of culture of Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP) Dr Khadim Hussain said in a statement, local medi
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Pashtun, Baloch students hold sit-in at Punjab University in Lahore
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 22 (ANI): A group of Pashtun and Baloch students, popularly known as the Pashtun Students Council, are currently holding a sit-in at Punjab University in Lahore against the arrest of Pashtun Educational Development Movement President Riaz Khan, according to vern
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Pakistan quietly supporting global terrorist group for carrying out dirty
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 19 (ANI): To cover up their failure, Pakistan has been quietly supporting the global terrorist group, Islamic State of Khorasan Provinces (ISKP) and other outfits for carrying out a dirty war against Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Protest erupts across KP over murder of school van driver
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], October 12 (ANI): Protest across various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa erupted on Tuesday van driver was shot dead and two schoolchildren injured in a targeted attack on Monday morning in the Gulibagh area of Charbagh tehsil.
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Pak-Afghan relations growing nasty over Durand line border conflict
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): The border conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Durand Line that divides not just the two countries but also the Pashtuns remains a bone of contention between the two nations, however, both chose to remain silent on several issues related t
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Pashtuns hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN in Geneva
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): A large number of Pashtuns participated in a protest outside the United Nations to raise the human rights violations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Pakistan unable to tame monster once it built
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 23 (ANI): Pakistani chickens are coming home to roost - unpalatable fact - Islamabad is suffering the direct result of a deliberate policy of inciting, financing, training and equipping terrorists and jihadis.
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Pak Army "aggressively" targeting Pashtuns, risks social divisions
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 13 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has abused its power and used the legal system and its control over the administrative levers to aggressively target the Pashtuns risking inflammation of social divisions in the country.
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Taliban decried globally for closing Paktia girls' schools after brief ope
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 11 (ANI): The Taliban were publicly criticized globally for closing the girls' schools in Paktia after a brief opening.
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