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Pashto films inspired Bollywood once. But Zia, 9/11, Taliban all led to their decline

+TFP Tina Das - 27 March, 2022

Look at Pathans in Bollywood films, the golden era of Pashto films defied borders. Now, they have been reduced to vulgar movies in shady halls of Pakistan.

‘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.

Who are Pashtuns? Afghan majority with countless tribes that Imran Khan got wrong

Pia Krishnankutty - 22 September, 2021

Pakistan PM Imran Khan was schooled on social media last week after he erroneously referred to terrorist group Haqqani network as a Pashtun tribe.

Imran Khan is proving that Pakistan’s state policy is to lie and Balochistan doesn’t exist

Abdul Nawaz Bugti - 4 October, 2020

PM Imran Khan is concerned about Kashmir and Palestine but can't see atrocities against Baloch and Pashtuns in Pakistan.

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.

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.

What Akshay Kumar’s Kesari won’t tell you: The real military account of Battle of Saragarhi

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) - 28 March, 2019

The battle is recorded in the Digest of Service of 36 Sikh (now 4 Sikh) and I was its custodian for two years as the Adjutant.

Twitter may soon be banned in Pakistan

ThePrint Team - 17 August, 2018

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan pays tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a bureaucratic reshuffle in the offing.

Why Pakistan Army can’t crush Pashtun uprising as brutally as it did Baloch separatists

Sadanand Dhume - 26 June, 2018

Army has arrested members of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement but it hasn’t gone after them with the brutality it has used on Baloch separatists.

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

Priyamvada Grover - 23 April, 2018

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

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