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PTM Delegation briefs European Parliament on human rights violations again
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A delegation from the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) Germany chapter met with several members of the European Parliament in Brussels to discuss the ongoing human rights violations allegedly committed by Pakistan's military and security agencies against the Pashtun population.
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PTM Switzerland holds protest at UNHRC against atrocities faced by Pashtun
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Switzerland organised a large protest in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, raising their voices against a series of grave human rights violations and the escalating crisis faced by Pashtuns in Pakistan.
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Pakistan: Pashtuns protest intensifies over detention of PTM chief Manzoor
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Pashtuns in Pakistan continue to protest against the detention of the chairman of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), Manzoor Pashteen, who remains in police custody for over 10 days.
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Pashtuns subject to extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances in Pak
Updated : 3 years, 3 months 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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Pakistan unable to tame monster once it built
Updated : 3 years, 8 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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Parties convene Jirga to defend rights of pashtuns in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months 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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Pashtuns in Pakistan continue to face torture by Pak Army
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], June 12 (ANI): A video is doing the rounds on social media showing the brutal torture by Pakistan Army on civilians in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that has raised concerns over growing human rights violations in the region.
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In Pakistan, raise your voice against state oppression and you disappear
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Not only Balochs or Pashtuns. In Pakistan, three persons on an average are picked by security forces, locked up in secret jails, tortured and many left to die, primarily for raising their voice against state oppression.
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Protests erupt against ISI, Pak Army for killing Pashtun police officer
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Nov 16 (ANI): Protests erupted against Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Pak Army for brutal killing of Pashtun police officer, Tahir Dawar. Pashtuns in Pakistan chanted slogans against the Pakistan Army and ISI for brutally killing Dawar.
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Persecution of Pashtuns in Pakistan highlighted in Geneva
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 13 (ANI): The European Organization for Pakistani Minorities has displayed a photo exhibition in front of United Nations office in Geneva on Pashtun Long March which took place after the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a 27-year-old shopkeeper, of Pashtun origi
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