Then there is the thorny issue of "Lar o Bar," a nationalist idea that has long existed on the fringes of Pashtun politics.

They emphasised issues such as enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, and torture faced by the Pashtun community. The activists, who shouted slogans against the ...

There has been a significant uptick in violence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the UN has documented. Anti-Taliban resistance ...

Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the ...

Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other ...

The fragile peace along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has once again been shattered as intense clashes erupted between the security forces of both nations.[1] The latest outbreak of violence centred ...

Marzieh Hamidi, a former taekwondo champion for Afghanistan who now lives in France as a refugee, has been placed under ...

Afghanistan has made its way into the U.S. headlines once again in the run-up to the presidential election. Both Democrats ...

Women gather in Albania in defiance of the Taliban's new "vice and virtue" laws which aim to stop them from being heard ...

By Emma Collet in Termez Uzbekistan is once again asserting itself as one of the most active countries in Central Asia in its ...

MICHEAL Martin brushed shoulders with Hollywood A-lister Meryl Streep at a UN meeting in New York. The Tanaiste met the Manhattan star yesterday in the Big Apple as she spoke to world leaders ...

Popular channel’s boss Harun Najafizada tells The Independent Taliban purchased an extremely expensive jammer with the ...