There has been a significant uptick in violence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the UN has documented. Anti-Taliban resistance ...

Popular channel’s boss Harun Najafizada tells The Independent Taliban purchased an extremely expensive jammer with the ...

Even though over 20% of Pakistan's military is Pashtun and they are well represented in the bureaucracy, the gap between the ...

Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other ...

Late one evening in February 2022, Chinar Sediqi touched down at San Antonio International Airport for the first time. He was ...

Locals in northwestern Pakistan, where the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan extremist group is seeking to reclaim its former ...

To realize this objective, Islamabad aimed at creating an overarching Islamic identity in order to displace the Pashtun ethnic nationalism because the demand for Pashtunistan, if conceded, would have ...

2,000 years later, a Russian General echoed him in 1987, “Pashtuns are the bravest people ever born on the earth; these people can’t be defeated by force.” Afghanistan has not changed much; it ...

Her latest book, written with Sima Samar, is Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Vice and Virtue squad is at it again. After previously banning Afghan ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan have enforced new laws mandating that women must cover their bodies and faces in public. Source: AAP / Qudratullah Razwan/EPA Women in Afghanistan have been banned from ...

Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws ...