Pashtun Spring: A Grass Root Civil Political & Human Rights Movement
October 26, 2021 Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi
The Pashtuns, historically known as ethnic Afghans mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They speak the Pashto Language and adhere to Pashtunwali, which is a traditional set of ethics guiding individual and communal conduct123.
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Balochistan; land of Enforced Disappearances
November 03, 2021 Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi
There is no denying the fact that Balochistan is a land of Enforced Disappearances. Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, and torture have all occurred as a result of the valiant Baloch people's long struggle for freedom and liberty.
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN PAKISTAN
November 03, 2021 Fazal Ur Rehman Afridi
Pakistani journalists, human rights advocates, and civil society are subjected to the most severe forms of repression by Pakistan's military administration. Pakistan, according to reporters, is one of the world's worst countries for freedom of
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The Skardu Protests: Could Jammu and Kashmir Reunify?
September 06, 2023 Rajat Ganguly
Last week, a massive protest by the area's Shia population broke out after the authorities arrested a Shia cleric under Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws that were recently reinforced and made even more stringent. Over the past six days, massive crowds have
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Ethnic Profiling and Discrimination Against Pashtuns in Pakistan: A Security and Human Rights Concerns For Regional Stability
September 25, 2024 Levsa Mohmand
This report examines the systematic discrimination and ethnic profiling of the Pashtun population in Pakistan, particularly in the context of the government's counter-terrorism efforts. Drawing on a range of sources, including interviews...
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Pakistan’s Terror plot: The Rogue Army at Work, Dr Strangelove in Rawalpindi
April 30, 2025 M J Akbar
PAKISTAN IS NOT A STATE. It is a state of mind, conceived in a strange supremacism, bred in distance from other faiths, and sustained by a self-corroding hatred of Hindus that demanded the separation of some Muslims from the motherland in the absurd cause of
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Operation Sindoor is Not Enough: India Must Take the Fight to the Pakistani Army/ISI
May 08, 2025 Rajat Ganguly
The abominable Pahalgam attack of April 22nd on Hindu tourists by Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorists was a deliberate ploy to provoke India into a kinetic response that carried with it the risks of horizontal and vertical escalation, which in turn would have
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The Pahalgam Response: Not a Ceasefire, Only a Tactical Pause
May 13, 2025 Rajat Ganguly
In his The Strategy of Conflict (originally published in 1960; republished by Harvard University Press in 1981) Nobel laureate economist Thomas Schelling had talked of strategy as the setting up of a broader goal or objective by an actor that the actor then
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