The Pashtun Taliban has risen like a phoenix: transformed from Mujahideen who pushed back the Soviets in 1979 to take power ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — A rapidly growing civil rights movement continued to test Pakistan’s tolerance for democratic dissent with a demonstration that drew several thousand protesters to Karachi on ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - A Pakistani ethnic Pashtun rights group on Sunday staged its first rally in the southern city of Karachi, the site of a killing in January that sparked the movement and led to ...

PESHAWAR -- Ali Wazir, a lawmaker and leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority, has appeared before a judge following his arrest in the northwestern city of ...

ISLAMABAD — At first, the killing last month of Naqeebullah Mehsud — an aspiring model shot by police in Karachi who claimed afterward that he was a Taliban militant — seemed merely the latest in a ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Nationwide protests at the police killing of a young ethnic Pashtun man in Pakistan's largest city have shone a spotlight on allegations of persecution by the authorities against ...

Pakistani police have arrested another member of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority amid an apparent crackdown on the group. A member of the Pashtun Tahafuz ...

July 8 (Reuters) - Pakistani police and paramilitary troops were issued "shoot on sight" orders on Friday in its largest city of Karachi after 70 people were killed in three days of ethnic and ...

Pakistan’s powerful army would seem to have little to fear from a scrappy group of protesters nobody had heard of until recently. But nearly four months after the Pashtun Tahafuz (protection) Movement ...

The more nostalgic residents of Karachi call it the "City of Lights" — a balmy port on the Arabian Sea. It's also Pakistan's largest city and the country's main economic engine. Now, it's also become ...

In general, tuberculosis (TB) is more common in men than women. However, for reasons currently not understood, women are 1·5–2 times more likely to report TB compared to men in Pashtun region ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Nationwide protests at the police killing of a young ethnic Pashtun man in Pakistan's largest city have shone a spotlight on allegations of persecution by the authorities against ...