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TopicManzoor Pashteen

Topic: Manzoor Pashteen

Pakistanis say ‘stay strong comrade’ after police arrest Pashtun leader

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Manzoor Pashteen was arrested on 4 December. He has been criticising the Pakistani military for enforced disappearances & extrajudicial killings of Pashtuns.

Manzoor Pashteen is the ‘rockstar activist’ for Pakistani Pashtuns. He has a friend in Imran

'Bengalis took off your pants, but we are not Bengali. We are Pashtun and Baloch, we will take off your skin,' the activist shouted at the Islamabad rally.

Pashtun activist Manzoor Pashteen, critical of Pak army, denied entry to Balochistan

Here’s what’s happening across the border: PML-N spokesperson says Imran Khan govt stole her party’s projects, and Mahira Khan-Fawad Khan starrer film first in Pakistan to get same-day release in China.

‘Dawn’ succumbs to pressure, changes headline on militants killed in Kashmir

Here's what's happening across the border: Imran Khan vows citizenship to children of Afghan refugees; US envoy claims Pakistan thinking of allowing India to trade with Afghanistan through its land route.

Politicians & journalists in Pakistan condemn image of assaulted scribe soaked in blood

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan-origin author wins coveted Women's Prize for Fiction, while military cracks down in north Waziristan.

Pakistan journalist Gul Bukhari who criticised army returns home after she was abducted

Here's what's happening across the border: Stay order issued on Reham Khan's autobiography, while chief justice Nisar takes suo moto notice of convict in Khadija...

‘Hurdles’ this Pashtun leader faced just to travel from Islamabad to Karachi

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Punjab police introduce new measure to prevent honour killing, and a special force deployed in Murree for tourist safety.

Why Pakistan’s Pashtuns are defying the government and marching in Lahore

The tribal community has organised itself to voice its demands after years of resistance against human rights violations. Manzoor Pashteen is leading the way.

When the man with the red cap speaks, thousands of Pashtuns listen

Here's what's happening across the border: Punjab women to flood roads on bikes for empowerment, and the ‘burglary-style’ raid activists have decried. Manzoor Pashteen guides...

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.