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Rights activists highlight concerns over terrorism, extremism in Pakistan,
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The symposium aimed to draw attention to the alarming situation in Pakistan and its potential consequences for regional peace.
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'Arrests at PTM meeting hall in Pakistan's Bannu are continuation of state
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Baloch activist Mahrang Baloch on Sunday condemned the attack and arrests at the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) meeting hall in Bannu, Pakistan, stressing that these incidents mark the continuation of decades of state oppression of Pashtuns. Baloch further emphasised that the dream of rul
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Canada: Baloch, Sindhis, Pashtun protest against Pak military atrocities,
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The joint protest in Toronto was called by the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, World Sindhi Council and Pashtun Council Canada to condemn Islamabad's apartheid policy of violence and repression against the Baloch, Sindhis and Pashtuns in the strongest terms.
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Pakistan: Pashtuns protest intensifies over detention of PTM chief Manzoor
Updated : 2 years, 3 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 hold worldwide protests to demand release of PTM chief Manzoor Pa
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Pashteen, a prominent Pashtun leader, was arrested by the police in Pakistan's Balochistan province on December 4. He was produced before the anti-terrorism court, which handed him over to the police for seven days of physical remand.
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Pakistan: Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party calls public meeting in Quetta on
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A public meeting will be held in Pakistan's Quetta on December 2 to address the injustice faced by Pashtuns in the country, Pakistan vernacular media Urdu Point reported.
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Geneva: Pashtuns hold anti-Pakistan protest over human rights violations
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) organised a protest rally in Geneva accusing Pakistan army for sponsoring terrorism and carrying out gross human rights violations.
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Activists raise concern over persecution of ethnic minorities by Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
They raised concern over the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistan against Baloch, Sindhi and the Pashtuns, and against the Uyghur Muslims by China.
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Pashtuns seek world's attention to address their untold sufferings in Paki
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Pashtun civilians are deliberately mislabelled, harassed, and used as a political tool by Islamabad in order for the country to earn international praise for supposedly combating terrorism.
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Pashtun activist at UN exposes Pakistan's ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In his intervention Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi said, "We would like to turn the council's attention towards a deteriorating security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan having grave implications for the basic fundamental rights and lives of Pashtun ethnic minority."
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Pashtuns subject to extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances in Pak
Updated : 3 years, 1 month 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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Comments of Pak Ambassador to UN on Pashtuns disgraceful, he should apolog
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Munir Akram had in a UN meeting said that the restrictions being put by the Taliban on Afghanistan flow not so much from a religious perspective as from a peculiar cultural perspective of the Pashtun culture.
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