Pashtun in a sentence

Many of the non-Pashtun groups in Afghanistan have adopted the Pashtun culture and use Pashto as a second language.

Pashtun intellectuals and academics, however, tend to be more flexible and sometimes define who is Pashtun based on other criteria.

Pashtun lifestyle and issues have been raised by Western and Pashtun expatriate film-makers in recent years.

The Awami National Party has its strongholds in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan, particularly in the Peshawar valley, while Karachi in Sindh has one of the largest Pashtun populations in the world — around 7 million by some estimates.

The efforts of the Sadozai heirs of Timur to impose a true monarchy on the truculent Pashtun tribes, and their efforts to rule absolutely and without the advice of the other major Pashtun tribal leaders, were ultimately unsuccessful.

Akundzada, who remains hidden from public view in Kandahar for security reasons, ordered the banning of Afghan women from most workplaces and all education since his ultra-conservative Sunni Pashtun group swept Kabul on August 15, 2021.

We have a lot of different peoples, a lot of ethnicities — Pashtun, Uzbek, Tajik, Hazara, etc — but they are Afghan, which gives a basis for our national unity.

The portrayal of Pashtuns in the media and the construction of their identity have inflicted deep wounds on the Pashtun nation.

Manzoor Pashteen, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), addresses supporters during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, April 22, 2018.

Mrs. Pashtun, an ex-intelligence officer of the interior ministry and her sister has recently sold a land, according to Ahmadzai.

On May 1, Sardar Muhammed Arif Wazir, a Pashtun political leader in Pakistan, was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting by unidentified men as he stood outside his house in South Waziristan.

Prominent speakers and participants in the conference included Pashtun women’s activist Gulalai Ismail, exiled journalist Taha Siddiqi and Tahir Gora, and human rights defender Marvi Sirmed.

The Pashtun community of Mekhtar, where a little over a thousand families reside off a main national highway, was once a tight-knit small town where people of the two faiths lived side by side.

The PTM, also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement, was founded to defend the rights of ethnic Pashtuns in regions where the army had conducted offensives against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

To add to Luke’s confusion during his stay in Peshawar, he develops a heart-aching crush on Dani, but they are forbidden by Pashtun custom to touch or even to converse unsupervised.

Journalists and advocacy groups blame the military and its powerful intelligence agency, which they say are seeking to quash coverage of the Pashtun movement against the army’s war on terror as well as critical articles in general.

To some extent Imran Khan, with his anti-war and anti-drone stance, did become the voice of this lot but as Khan grew in politics, his concerns became more diverse and national, leaving the local Pashtun connection diluted because of high politics.

While local media hushed the protests, similar to its blackout of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, there has been a nationalist movement brewing in Gilgit-Baltistan as the locals stand up against continued denial of their basic human rights.

A Kandahar lawmaker running for Parliament, Khaled Pashtun, said the one-week postponement in the polling was meant to give voters who might have stayed at home on Saturday, afraid so soon after the attack, the chance to vote in the elections.

Although it has been blacked out in Pakistani media, the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) under the charismatic Manzoor Pashteen is giving voice to that discontent among the Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in this region.