A retired schoolteacher, Fazal Zaman Shalman, locally known as Pakhtun Ustaz, listens to an old Pashto song on a historical gramophone displayed in a private museum he established some two decades ago ...

How do wars end in the tribal society of Afghanistan? That's one of the interesting questions that was highlighted by President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington last week. Duing their well-scripted ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington, and joining us now from London is Muhammad Junaid. He’s a researcher, a PhD student, and he is studying the ...

Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan. Ayaz lives near Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s ...

A 200-year-old wooden hujra in Swat’s Dardiyal area still preserves Pashtun traditions of jirga, hospitality and community gatherings, serving as a symbol of cultural heritage.

Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand line have been at the receiving end of some of the most grotesque and intense violence by the Taliban. In this July 14, 2021 file photo, supporters of the Taliban ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MADHEY BABA, Pakistan — Approximately 3 million people have fled the fighting in Dir, Buner and the Swat Valley over the past month, the largest migration in ...

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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: I’m Paul Jay in Washington, DC, and joining us again from London is Muhammad Junaid. He’s a researcher and PhD student studying the Pashtun identity. Thanks for joining ...