Posts Tagged ‘ pashtun ’

On Discrimination against Pashtuns: Reflections from Peshawar

By Sanaa Alimia
Aug 2015
On Discrimination against Pashtuns: Reflections from Peshawar

اردو | There has been a predilection on the part of non-Pashtun Pakistanis and other actors to look at the problem of terrorism as, somehow, a Pashtun problem. Issue 9
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Reporter’s Notebook: Pashtuns Protest Against Army | Ashraf Kakkar & Madiha R Tahir

By M.T.
Jan 2013

Photographer: Ashraf Kakkar Protests against the killing of 21 Pashtuns from Pakistan’s tribal areas by Pakistan’s security forces this week continue to grow. The latest wave of solidarity protests occurred in Islamabad as well as Peshawar. Frontier Corps (FC) commander Colonel Jawad Zia who heads the para-military force in Bara, the locality where 21...
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Protests Against Army Operations in FATA | Q&A

By M.A.
Jan 2013

Inspired by the Hazaras of Quetta, Pashtuns convened in front of the Governor’s House in Peshawar with the bodies of 18 people killed in an army operation carried out in Bara, a sub-division of Khyber Agency. The bodies have since been confiscated by the army and police, but the protestors continue their sit-in, this...
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Protests Against Army Operations In Bara | Live Updates | Tanqeed

By M.A.
Jan 2013

Pashtuns from Bara, a sub-division of Khyber Agency, follow in the footsteps of the Hazaras of Quetta. In protest against the army operations in Bara, they are now sitting in front of the Governor’s House in Peshawar, with anywhere between 13 to 18 dead bodies on Sher Shah Soori Road in Peshawar. See live...
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