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MQM leader seeks UN's help in attaining self-determination right
Updated : 7 years ago IST
London [UK], Mar 25 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder-leader Altaf Hussain has once again laid his demand for the right of self-determination and has urged the United Nations (UN) to immediately send its investigators and observers to Pakistan to look into the "genocide" of Mohaj
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Pashtuns slam existence of terror camps in Pakistan's Khyber province
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 13 (ANI): Days after India carried out air strike at Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, members of Pashtun community from this province of Pakistan condemned the terror camps in operating from there and in FATA.
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HRW calls for transparent probe into Pashtun activist's death
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 17 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a transparent investigation into the death of Pashtun activist Arman Luni, who died during a sit-in protest in Balochistan earlier this month.
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Afghan President expresses concern over violence by Pakistani forces again
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 7 (ANI): Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday voiced serious concern over the violence perpetrated against peaceful protestors and civil activists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and warned that it could have “long-standing negative consequen
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Pashtuns support freedom of Baloch from Pakistan
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Sherani (Balochistan) [Pakistan], Feb 5 (ANI): In a pre-emptive strike to stop the Pashtuns from backing the Baloch cause of freedom from Pakistan, the Pakistani security forces heckled, harassed and arrested a group of Pashtun leaders, when they were going to attend the funeral of Arman
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In Pakistan, raise your voice against state oppression and you disappear
Updated : 7 years, 1 month 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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Mohajirs, Pashtuns, Baloch team meet US Congressman, raise human rights v
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Feb 2 (ANI): A delegation of Mohajirs and representatives of Pashtun, Baloch and Hazara communities held a detailed meeting with US Congressman Rob Wittman here on Friday (local time) to brief him about the human rights violations and discrimination being faced by their
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Pashtuns' fight for justice gathers steam in Pakistan
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 20 (ANI): They gathered on January 5, in Germany, in Cologne, and again on January 12 in Tank in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to commemorate the first anniversary of Naqibullah Mehsud's death.
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Protests erupt against ISI, Pak Army for killing Pashtun police officer
Updated : 7 years, 4 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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Pashtuns stage anti-Pakistan protest outside UNHRC
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 19 (ANI): Members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement held an anti-Pakistan protest in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to seek justice against the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army and other security agencies.
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Persecution of Pashtuns in Pakistan highlighted in Geneva
Updated : 7 years, 6 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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Geneva: Pashtuns protest against Pak Army
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva, [Switzerland] June 25 (ANI) : Members of the Pashtun community with origins in Pakistan and Afghanistan held protests against Pakistani Army in front of the office of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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