Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

Pashto poetry’s journey from love to war and resistance

With Pashtuns suffering massive violence from the Taliban, Islamist militants and the Pakistan state, Pashto poetry today reflects the community’s new blood-soaked reality

| Oct 16, 2023

Talking to Tehreek-i-Taliban

Pakistan’s negotiations with the banned group may lead to more violence and instability.

| Sep 13, 2022

Military creep

Pakistan’s federal system is being undermined by militarisation.

| Aug 04, 2021

Silence in Swat

Memory, militancy and the military in Swat Valley.

| Sep 28, 2020

Redefining citizenship in Pakistan

The PTM movement envisions an alternate relationship between citizen and state.

| Apr 28, 2020

PTM and Pakistan’s civil-rights movement

In conversation with journalists Sarah Eleazar and Sher Ali Khan. [INCLUDES INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT]

| Jun 19, 2019

Anatomy of a political moment

Reportage from Pakistan on how a civil-rights movement is challenging Pakistan’s status quo. The article was nominated for True Story Award 2019.

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