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Pakistan hell-bent on fencing Durand Line to secure CPEC
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 25(ANI): In the wake of ensuring the security of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan is adamant to fence the Durand Line while also restricting the Pashtun solidarity in the region.
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Pak court grants bail to Pashtun leader Ali Wazir in hate speech case
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): A provincial court in Pakistan on Wednesday granted bail to prominent Pashtun leader Ali Wazir in connection with a hate speech case.
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Pakistani Pashtuns talk directly to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan not to take
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 9 (ANI): Several Pashtuns and tribals from Pakistan have started talking directly to the leadership of Tehrike Taliban Pakistan (TT-P), trying to convince them not to get involved in terrorist activities in the area, local media reported.
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Sirajuddin Haqqani calls for end of disputes among local tribes in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 8 (ANI): Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting head of Taliban's Interior Ministry, who is on the UN sanctions list as well as an FBI wanted terrorist has called for the resolution of disputes with a Pashtun tribe through negotiation.
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Pakistan using Durand line dispute with Taliban as a pretext to target Pas
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 20 (ANI): The recent attacks by Pakistani forces on areas along the Pak-Afghan border indicate Islamabad's deep hatred for the tribal communities including Pashtuns, according to media reports.
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PTM's Manzoor Pashteen joins protest for release of Baloch student
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], March 24 (ANI): Manzoor Pashteen, the chairman of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) has reportedly joined the ongoing protest for the release of Hafeez Baloch, a student of Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad.
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Afghan leaders support Pashtun ethnic jirga in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkh
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 17 (ANI): Former Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and former Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday supported the proposal by the Pashtun ethnic jirga in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to hold a Loya Jirga in Balochistan.
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Parties convene Jirga to defend rights of pashtuns in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Bannu [Pakistan], March 12 (ANI): To protest for the rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns and to discuss the issues faced by them, many parties in Pakistan's Bannu city convened a jirga on Friday.
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UNHRC: Pashtuns continue to protest in Geneva against rights violations in
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): Members of the civil rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) will hold protests outside the UN headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday to raise concerns over human rights violations being committed by the Pakistan Army.
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Pakistan formally arrests imprisoned PTM leader Ali Wazir for provocative
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): In a move to clampdown Pashtuns, Pakistan police formally arrested incarcerated Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)) leader Ali Wazir in another case pertaining to allegedly delivering provocative speeches against the security establishment.
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Pakistan: PTM organizes protest in front of Sindh Assembly for release of
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], February 19 (ANI): The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) under the leadership of Manzoor Pashteen organized a protest in front of the Sindh Assembly in Karachi for the release of Pashtun leader Ali Wazir.
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Pakistan struggling to introduce itself as welfare state, says Awami Natio
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 17 (ANI): Leaders of the Awami National Party and the Pashtun Student Federation said that even after 76 years, the democratic forces were still struggling to introduce the country as a welfare state, according to Pakistan's local media.
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