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Taliban 2.0: The phoenix of Pashtun power

The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power ...
Their accusations against Pakistan’s security forces are not cries for justice but echoes of enemy propaganda designed to ...
In an Afghan United Front meeting, activists from Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi, and Kashmiri communities reaffirmed their fight ...
Baloch participants declared that they are “freedom fighters, not separatists,” calling Pakistan’s presence in Balochistan an ...
Pashtun, Baloch, Sindhi and Kashmiri activists joined an online Afghan United Front meeting to reaffirm their struggle for ...
Since 2001, Taliban militants operating in the Pashtun-dominated tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have destroyed as many as 800 music shops, according ...
Achakzai said, “Afghanistan became the graveyard of the British, the Russians, and the Americans — for God’s sake, don’t turn ...
The idea of secularism in Afghanistan dates back to the 20 century. Historically, the Pashtun political elite in Afghanistan paid attention to secularism. Although there is no accurate survey on the ...
Since the formation of the Afghan National Unity Government in 2014, Kabul has used “Pashtun Diplomacy” as an instrument to bring the bilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship back on track and make ...
The “mujahideen” reached Peshawar in the early 19th century, bringing with them a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam and the readiness of zealots to use violence – then against the Sikhs. Their ...