TopicPashtun Tahafuz Movement

Topic: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

‘Taliban rule’: Pakistanis fume after police violently disrupt Pashtun singer’s concert

Simrin Sirur - 21 March, 2022

Singer, poet and scholar, Karan Khan’s music is derived from his experiences and lived identity as a Pashtun. A police 'attack' on his concert didn't go well with Pakistanis.

Battered economy, brewing uprising in Pakistan means India can’t rule out adventurism in 2021

Tara Kartha - 4 January, 2021

CPEC is slowing down and China is hesitant to finance Pakistan Railways. That doesn’t mean Beijing will back off.

Pakistan’s Bhutto-Zardari siblings can show India’s dynasts how to fight the good fight

Jyoti Malhotra - 8 December, 2020

Like Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, the Bhutto-Zardari siblings have been ghettoised by their parents’ politics. But unlike the Gandhis, they are also a symbol of hope for their people.

Killing of 4 dissidents in a week shows Covid has not slowed down Pakistani ‘deep state’

Srijan Shukla - 5 May, 2020

Activists living abroad allege that Pakistani 'deep state' is using the cover of Covid-19 pandemic to act on dissidents.

Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan arrests PTM rights activists & signs peace treaty with Taliban

Jahanzeb Hussain - 10 February, 2020

PTM's cause is Pakistan's cause. It is only asking for what’s in the Constitution, but the establishment has nothing to gain by implementing the Constitution.

At Lahore ThinkFest, Pakistan science minister Fawad Chaudhry justifies slapping TV anchor

Simrin Sirur - 14 January, 2020

Controversy-ridden minister Fawad Chaudhry advocates stronger defamation laws in Pakistan after TV anchor suggested he was part of a porn video.

Why Manzoor Pashteen, a young Pashtun leader, is a thorn in Pakistani army’s side

Regina Mihindukulasuriya - 19 August, 2019

Pakistan government sees Manzoor Pashteen's Pashtun Tahafuz Movement as contentious and a threat to the nation's national unity.

From Jinnah’s family to Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan thinks everyone is a foreign agent

Naila Inayat - 6 June, 2019

Those who differ with the state in Pakistan aren’t people with opposing viewpoints but foreign agents.

Pakistan military can’t handle growing Pashtun storm, so it’s blaming countries like India

Kriti Shah - 3 May, 2019

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement is difficult for India to support because the movement owes its success to the absence of foreign funding or support.

Pakistan says India’s RAW creating unrest in FATA, funding human rights groups there

Nayanima Basu - 30 April, 2019

Pakistan's DG, ISPR, Asif Ghafoor, says Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies funding the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, which is agitating in FATA.

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