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Protesting Pashtuns demand removal of Pak Army check posts in Swat
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Swat (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) [Pakistan], Feb 20 (ANI): Scores of Pashtuns staged a massive protest earlier this week in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over being ill treated at army check posts in the area.
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Suffered for long in Pakistan, Pashtuns find support in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 09 (ANI): Afghans poured in support for hundreds of Pashtuns from Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan who have been protesting in Islamabad for the arrest of fugitive police official Rao Anwar who is involved in the fake encounter of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a
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Pashtun Long March wake-up call against fundamentalism: Ghani
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 09 (ANI): Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday came out in support of Pashtun Long March, which is being organised in northwestern Pakistan against authorities who carry out abuses against the ethnic tribe.
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Pak tribesmen set ablaze good Taliban's office
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Dera Ismail Khan (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) [Pakistan], Feb 7 (ANI): Reacting to the killing of a young man from the Wazir tribe last month, local Pashtuns stormed the offices of 'good Taliban', a so-called peace committee and set it on fire.
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Millions protest in Islamabad against killing of Pashtun shopkeeper
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb. 07 (ANI): Millions of ethnic Pashtuns poured out on the streets of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Monday to protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing of a young shopkeeper last month and demand justice in the matter.
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Why are the Pashtun angry?
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India] Feb 6 (ANI): Rao Anwar Ahmed Khan's police force in Karachi shot dead a 27-year old Mehsud Naseemullah (aka Naqeebullah), originally from South Waziristan, during an encounter. Rao Anwar had organised similar encounters in the past and in the last seven years there had b
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Pashtuns hold anti-Pakistan protest in Islamabad; demand Azadi
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb.4 (ANI): Thousands of Pashtuns gathered outside the press club in Islamabad and chanted Azadi (Freedom) slogans by highlighting human rights violations against the community.
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Pak, Afghanistan must end terror menace on Durand Line: EFSAS study
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Amsterdam [The Netherlands], Jan.11 (ANI): Frontiers by nature are contentious and divisive lines, and often acquire a prominence because of their bloodstained history, and in this regard, the imaginary Durand Line that separates Pakistan and Afghanistan, has managed to generate its share of
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WBWF condemns abduction of Baloch women and children by Pak forces
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Vancouver [Canada], Nov. 1 (ANI): Condemning the abduction of women and children of two prominent Baloch leaders Dr.Allah Nazar and Aslam Baloch, and the abduction of Nawaz Ata Baloch, Information Secretary of BHRO (Baloch Human Rights Organisation), the World Baloch Women Forum (WBWF) in a
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Villagers along Pak-Afghan border starving, says Pak official
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Khost [Afghanistan], October 29 (ANI): The closure of the route along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the tribal region of Parachinar has left the people of the border villages starving.
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Pashtun, Baloch activists discuss atrocities by Pakistan Army in FATA
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 11 (ANI): The Pashtun and Baloch activists recently gathered in Afghanistan's Kabul to discuss about the atrocities carried out by the Pakistan Army in their region.
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Anti-Pakistan protests erupt outside Jalalabad consulate in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Jalalabad [Afghanistan], Sept.28 (ANI): Dozens of Afghans, mostly Pashtuns, staged a protest against Pakistan in Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
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