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Twitter restores PTM leader Pashteen’s account after brief suspension

Microblogging website Twitter restored the account of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen on Tuesday, after a brief suspension. In the late hours of Monday, visitors to the...

Mochi Gate – Podium of the embattled

From Jinnah to Wali Khan, almost all significant leaders have addressed at the venue Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen has joined an exclusive list of...

Here’s how the Lahore Left Front and PTM managed to stage...

Weeks-long efforts of Pashtuns, leftists pay off as over 2,000 people join Manzoor Pashteen at Mochi Gate LAHORE: The Pashtun Tahfuz Movement (PTM) rally at...

Local group threatens upcoming PTM Lahore rally of ‘consequences’

--Police say the rally will get protection as per law   LAHORE: A local group of individuals calling themselves the ‘Watan Tahufuz Movement’ are threatening the Sunday rally...

Gomal University mum as Manzoor Pashteen allegedly banned from alma mater

LAHORE/PESHAWAR: The leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), Manzoor Pashteen, has reportedly been barred from entering the premises of his former university, the Gomal...

University professors unite for free speech after alarming events

Professors concerned about cancellation of events at Habib University and LUMS; dismissal of politically active professor at PU; and questioning of Gomal University official...

Musharraf regime ‘sold’ Pakistanis to US, NA told

MPC chairman admits 4,000 Pakistanis extradited to foreign countries deliberately Justice (r) Javed Iqbal promises to meet Manzoor Pashteen to inquire about Pashtun...

Pashtuns will approach UN if state doesn’t give due rights, says...

--Pashtun leader says his community wants to settle demands with govt in courtroom  --Rejects allegation of being 'foreign agent', says demanding a peaceful life is not 'part...

Caught between the military and militants, Pashtuns fight for rights

When he visits rural villages, fans shower him with rose petals. A YouTube user calls him a "rock star activist". It's an unlikely epithet...

From ‘Mazari hat’ to ‘Pashteen hat’: A symbol of Pashtun resistance

“Mazari hat”, a hat made in Afghanistan, has been in high demand in markets across Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan since Pashtun Tahafuz Movement...

Peshawar rally condemns Pashteen-led movement

PESHAWAR: People from different political parties, mostly from tribal areas, on Tuesday participated in a rally arranged with the “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan in the provincial...

Gulalai asked to tender apology to Manzoor Pashteen or face legal...

ISLAMABAD: Member National Assembly (MNA) Ayesha Gulalai on Monday was served a legal notice seeking a written apology within 14 days for using defamatory language...

PTM holds protest rally resenting workers’ arrests

LAHORE: At least a hundred people including supporters of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), activists and civil society members on Monday held a protest rally...

Fate of ‘disappeared’ stirs anger among Pashtuns

ISLAMABAD: When Mohammad Ayub Khan heard his nephew had been picked up by Pakistani security officials in Karachi, it brought back painful memories of...

‘Pashtuns don’t need any certificate to prove their loyalty to Pakistan’

QUETTA: There was drama in the Balochistan Assembly on Friday when a member condemned the registration of First Information Report (FIR) against some Pashtun leaders...

Manzoor Pashteen recounts sufferings of IDPs

PTM leader says 320 missing persons have returned after Islamabad sit-in LAHORE: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen, who has been leading a peaceful...

Police register case against PTM representatives for criticising army

QUETTA: Representatives of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) on Tuesday were booked by police in a case pertaining to criticising the army and intelligence agencies. Manzoor Pashteen,...