The 38-year-old landowner walks out his front door, passes the pomegranate trees and grape vines ... recognized as the head of all Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan and Pakistan’s ...

One of the consequences of the Mughal writings on the Pashtuns' origins, was a Pashtun counterhistory in the 20th century, which emphasized their connection to Aryan tribes. Other scholars have ...

Those who know the charismatic Karzai say he is capable of doing the seemingly impossible–cobbling together a united coalition of bickering Pashtun tribes as well as the beleaguered country’s ...

During its three-year rule of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Taliban, who belong to the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan, had mercilessly persecuted the Uzbek and Hazara ethnic minorities. After the ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Everyone agrees that ethnic Pashtun tribes along the Pakistani border are key to bringing an end to Afghanistan's war but no one seems to be able to agree on how the Pashtuns ...

Now, for the first time, hundreds of political leaders and tribal chiefs from the Pashtun tribes inhabiting Pakistan's border with Afghanistan have held a Pashtun Peace Jirga, or tribal council, ...

It’s an area which has long drawn militants and smugglers and where nomadic Pashtun tribes historically roamed. “Pashtuns have always been fierce fighters,” says Shah in the office beside ...