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Pakistan's Taliban gamble can be ruined by Pashtuns, says think tank
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 16 (ANI): Pakistan's ride on the Taliban tiger could turn out to be short and fatal due to Islamabad's habit of missing crucial minefields of its own making, according to a think tank.
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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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Exiled dissidents hold protest outside FATF headquarters to move Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], June 19 (ANI): Exiled dissidents belonging to Baloch, Pashtun, Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Konger Communities protested outside the headquarters of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris on Saturday urging the international monitoring body to move Pakistan from the grey
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Detained Pashtun leader Ali Wazir complains of inadequate medical faciliti
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): After detained parliamentarian from South Waziristan, Ali Wazir, complained about not receiving adequate medical treatment in prison, an anti-terrorism court has directed jail authorities to provide medical treatment facilities to him
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Islamabad severs ties with Afghan NSA for terming Pakistan as "brothel hou
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 30 (ANI): Islamabad severed ties with Hamdullah Mohib, the National Security Advisor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for terming Pakistan as "brothel house".
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Pakistan: Thousands gather to mark Kharqamar incident anniversary in N. Wa
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chaman [Pakistan], May 26 (ANI): Thousands of people gathered at the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement's (PTM) rally at Datta Khel town of North Waziristan on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the barbaric Kharqamar incident in which 14 peaceful Pashtun protesters were killed by the Pakistan Army.
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Pakistan needs to re-evaluate its policy of favouring Pashtuns in Afghanis
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] May 21, (ANI): Pakistan needs to re-evaluate its policy of favouring Pashtuns in Afghanistan as by dissociating itself from sophisticated inter-ethnic and inter-tribal affairs, Islamabad can gain leverage in the eyes of all Afghans.
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Provide us money, not COVID-19 vaccines: Afghan refugees to Pak govt
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], April 5 (ANI): Afghan refugees, who are living in the abysmal conditions in southern provinces of Pakistan, has demanded the country's government to provide them money and not COVID-19 vaccines as their camps have not been hit by the virus.
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Rights report highlights unlawful killings and forced disappearance of Bal
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], March 31 (ANI): In its 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights, the US State Department has highlighted significant human rights issues in Pakistan, including unlawful or arbitrary killings by the government and forced disappearance of Pashtun, Sindhi and Baloch human rights
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Pashtun leaders Manzoor Pashteen, Mohsin Dawar arrested in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], March 28 (ANI): Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Ahmad Pashtun and Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Mohsin Dawar were arrested on Sunday by the provincial police in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while they were on way to participate in 'Pasht
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Taliban attacks security outpost near Dahandara Dam in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 28 (ANI): Two guards of Dahandara Dam were killed in a Taliban attack in the Pashtun Kot district of Northwestern Faryab on Sunday.
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Protestors march towards Islamabad against killing of Pashtun youths
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 28 (ANI): Hundreds of demonstrators of Jani Khel dharna on Sunday marched towards Islamabad to protest against the brutal murder of four Pashtun youths hailing from Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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