KABUL -- In a recent debate leading up to the presidential elections here, the first question was not about terrorism, violence or even opium. It was about how candidates viewed a jagged line casually ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...

Sahib Khan, a political activist, is one of the organizers of a recent sit-in protest in Wana, a remote town near Pakistan's western border with Afghanistan. Khan describes the weeklong demonstration ...

In a recent debate leading up to the presidential elections here, the first question was not about terrorism, or violence, or even opium. It was about how candidates viewed a jagged line casually ...

Ethnic chauvinism, which has long bedeviled this fiercely tribal country and fueled a destructive civil war in the early 1990s, is erupting again in a tense dispute over recent parliamentary elections ...

The Afghan government and many Afghan civilians feel that the Pashtuns residing in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are Afghan nationals who ...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Thousands of men dance to the beat of drums as a Pashtun community in northwestern Pakistan celebrates the arrival of the new year and spring. They say that Norouz, the ...

Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): A jirga of Pashtun elders in Chaman has urged Pakistan to reopen the Spin Boldak–Chaman crossing to resolve the problems of thousands of stranded passengers and cargo vehicles, a ...

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen speaks during a 2018 rally. Credit: Voice of America Subscribe for ads-free reading Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen, recognized for his iconic red hat and ...