The Taliban is largely made up of an ethnic group called the Pashtuns. They are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, and also have a significant presence in northwest Pakistan. NPR's John Burnett ...

Bakht Munih, 43, knows porn when he sees it. He scans a display of DVDs and jabs a finger at one that depicts a man and a woman, their faces perilously close. “That’s a porno,” the fruit vendor shouts ...

Since gaining power in August 2021, the Afghan Taliban, following a unique normative mixture of Pashtun culture and Islamic law, have closed universities, colleges, and secondary and primary schools ...

In Pashto, there is a proverb: “Badal ba wakhlam, khpal waqt la rassa. Soka wayi yaw shal kalay sho, zama sara la rassa.” “A Pashtun took his revenge after a hundred years, and he said he acted too ...

Sarban, Batan, Ghorghust, and Karlani, all sons of Abu Qais. During the time of King Amanullah, Afghans were described as of Aryan origin, and because of this Aryan hype, even the Afghan airline was ...

The Baloch National Movement (BNM) and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) held a seminar in the Netherlands for Baloch Martyrs' ...

Pakistan, partitioned as an Islamic nation, stained its history shedding blood of Muslim Pathans within a year of its ...