Roots Of Rage: Why Is Pashtun Anger Justified?
"Why are you being hyper?" A dear friend from Lahore chided me one cold evening while we were chatting about ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Tag: pashtun
‘Profiling Of A Nation’: Munir Akram’s ‘Pashtun Culture’ Remarks Condemned
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party has condemned the remarks made by Munir Akram, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN, on the ...
Pakistanis From Marginalised Regions Have A Dream, In The Words Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Every year, Martin Luther King is remembered to honour his life and struggle for the civil rights movement. His oratory ...
Ali Wazir: 2022 Prisoner Of Conscience
It is a matter of great shame that an elected representative of a people that have borne immense losses at ...
Meeting The Whirling Pashtun
My driver was slow as usual, and I had a few errands to run before meeting the arty and aristocratic ...
The Political Making And Mutation Of Pakistan’s New Middle-Class
The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...
Twitter Condemns Fawad Chaudhry For Racist Remark Against Pashtuns
Social media users are full of outrage over a clip of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry making a racist ...
Story Of A Sacrificial Lamb Called Nadia
Dead Man’s Prisoner is a fascinating novel by a former provincial bureaucrat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. It addresses the despicable ...
The Angst Of Losing One’s Political Self
Political identities formed by ideologies at the core of which is the hatred of ‘the other’ are fragile and volatile. ...
The Rise Of A Brahui Consciousness
What the nations of the world do in their daily lives is called culture. Culture has two types, material and ...
Grievances Of The Pashtun Community Must Be Addressed
Mahmood Khan Achakzai, chairman of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) announced on February 21, 2022 that his party would ...
Changing The Tune: How Pakistanis Unite Around Music At The Grassroots To Challenge Violent Extremism
For quite some time, I’ve been deeply concerned about what I’d been reading about Pakistan, which described a country very ...
Babur And The Bibis: The Leading Women Of The Early Mughal Court
We all know about the great Mughal Empire that ruled over the Indian Subcontinent from 1526 AD to 1857 AD. ...
Defying Colonialists And Dictators: What PkMAP Learned From Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai
On the 25th of October 1956, 49-year-old Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was produced in the district court of Lahore. He ...
Bacha Khan’s Struggle To Transform And Uplift Pashtun Society In The Colonial-Ruled NWFP
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (aka Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan) is a renowned leader of the Pashtuns, and for good reason. ...
Reclaiming Pashtunwali: Pashtuns Need To Redefine ‘Honour’ As A Gender-Equal Idea
Hardly a day goes by without a headline featuring a woman being killed in Pakistan. Oft-reported cases include violence committed ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
After Punjab, ECP Schedules KP Elections For Oct 8
The Election Commission of Pakistan has scheduled the...
SC Decides Cases Looking At Trucks, Not Constitution: Maryam
PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday...