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North-south security divide could sway Afghan vote
Reuters - Jan 5, 2009
The south and east, on the frontline of the fight against Islamist insurgents, are predominantly Pashtun, one of Afghanistan's largest ethnic groups. ...



Surging towards stalemate in Afghanistan
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Jan 7, 2009
Halting that momentum is critical, as many Pashtun and other tribes are beginning to see the Taliban as a likely victor with whom they must come to terms, ...



Times Online

veteran recalls fighting Pashtun tribesmen
Times Online, UK - Jan 1, 2009
The hidden enemy, similar to that encountered every day by Nato troops stationed along the Afghan-Pakistan border, were Pashtun tribesmen, firing down upon ...



Raisani ignoring Pashtuns’ rights, says PkMAP
Daily Times, Pakistan - Jan 3, 2009
“We believe the Pashtuns have to resort to self-defence. At this difficult time, the government, the media and the human rights watchdogs have left us in ...



Little spot of bother up the Khyber Pass
Bournemouth Daily Echo,  UK - 18 hours ago
He is one of the last survivors of the Frontier Corps, who took on the Pashtun tribes of the Pakistan and Afghan border – the infamous “north west frontier” ...



RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Worries In Pakistan That Taliban Imposing 'Parallel' Government
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Jan 6, 2009
Local officials say the militia is seeking to expand its influence throughout the Pashtun border regions to the whole of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier ...



Editorial: Baloch protest against ‘Talibanisation’
Daily Times, Pakistan - Jan 5, 2009
When Mr Baloch refers to “supporters” of the Taliban he is pointing to the dominant Pashtun party, the JUIF, which also queered the pitch in the NWFP for ...



Foreign Policy (subscription)

Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
Foreign Policy (subscription) - Jan 5, 2009
The Afghan war has been intrinsically rural, mostly confined to the Pashtun belt across the country’s south and east, and inextricably linked to Pakistan. ...



Sherpao vows to struggle for Pashtun rights
Daily Times, Pakistan - Dec 20, 2008
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) will struggle for the rights of Pashtuns, party chief Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said on Saturday. ...



NewsHour

Obama should listen to the Pashtuns
The Post, Pakistan - Dec 24, 2008
There is speculation, however, that the attackers had no affiliation to either identity and that in fact, they were simply Pashtun tribesmen defending their ...
What Worked In Iraq Must Work In Afghanistan, Right? The Washington Independent
US, Afghans to train local militias United Press International
Obama: Nothing To See Here Slate
Democracy Now - Truthdig
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Youtube (videos about pashtun)

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Added: January 8, 2009



Media Review 01 07 09

From Middle East conflict to Obama's future foreign policy,from Illinois's disgraced governor Rod Blegojevich to the appointment of Roland Burris as a US Senator,from the closing of Swat girls schools to the norms of Pashtun society,from Navada Gold Mines to students getting into credit card traps, Media Review takes a look at all the stories that grabbed the attention of US News Media during this week. Tabinda Naeem reports from Washington.

Author: urduvoanews
Keywords: Media Review 01 07 09 Urdu VOA News Tabinda Naeem
Added: January 8, 2009



Media Review 01 07 09

From Middle East conflict to Obama's future foreign policy,from Illinois's disgraced governor Rod Blegojevich to the appointment of Roland Burris as a US Senator,from the closing of Swat girls schools to the norms of Pashtun society,from Navada Gold Mines to students getting into credit card traps, Media Review takes a look at all the stories that grabbed the attention of US News Media during this week. Tabinda Naeem reports from Washington.

Author: urduvoanews
Keywords: Media Review 01 07 09 Urdu VOA News Tabinda Naeem
Added: January 8, 2009


Media Review 01 07 09

From Middle East conflict to Obama's future foreign policy,from Illinois's disgraced governor Rod Blegojevich to the appointment of Roland Burris as a US Senator,from the closing of Swat girls schools to the norms of Pashtun society,from Navada Gold Mines to students getting into credit card traps, Media Review takes a look at all the stories that grabbed the attention of US News Media during this week. Tabinda Naeem reports from Washington.

Author: urduvoanews
Keywords: Media Review 01 07 09 Urdu VOA News Tabinda Naeem
Added: January 8, 2009


Media Review 01 07 09

From Middle East conflict to Obama's future foreign policy,from Illinois's disgraced governor Rod Blegojevich to the appointment of Roland Burris as a US Senator,from the closing of Swat girls schools to the norms of Pashtun society,from Navada Gold Mines to students getting into credit card traps, Media Review takes a look at all the stories that grabbed the attention of US News Media during this week. Tabinda Naeem reports from Washington.

Author: urduvoanews
Keywords: Media Review 01 07 09 Urdu VOA News Tabinda Naeem
Added: January 8, 2009


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Digg (news relevants about pashtun)

The Pashtun factor in the US failure in Afghanistan and Paki
If, as many analysts are now predicting, the US-Afghanistan war ends in disaster, it will be due to a large extent to a lack of understanding of the Pashtun factor. The seeds for the US difficulties in Afghanistan were sown in 2003.
http://digg.com/world_news/The_Pashtun_factor_in_the_US_failure_in_Afghanistan_and_Paki

Bomb, Negotiate, Repeat: The Long War in Afghanistan
"We're losing, and the trend has been the same since 2004," says respected American military expert Anthony Cordesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This is "an Afghan-Pakistani war, and to a large extent a Pashtun war," according to Cordesman, but the West hasn't adjusted yet to this idea.
http://digg.com/world_news/Bomb_Negotiate_Repeat_The_Long_War_in_Afghanistan

Flight Path to Disaster in Afghanistan
A military 'solution' to the conflict in Afghanistan would require carpet-bombing southern Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, destroying scores of villages and small towns and killing untold numbers of Pashtuns. Tariq Ali proposes a grand, brokered regional solution to the Afghan War, including all neighbouring countries to the conflict.
http://digg.com/world_news/Flight_Path_to_Disaster_in_Afghanistan_2

Pakistani-American held near Afghan border
A young American man of Pakistani descent has been detained in northwest Pakistan while trying to get into an ethnic Pashtun region near Afghanistan's border that is off-limits to foreigners, police said.
http://digg.com/world_news/Pakistani_American_held_near_Afghan_border

U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban
A hostile cultural climate forced Haroon Bacha, a Pashtun musician, to leave his homeland and come to New York.
http://digg.com/music/U_S_Refuge_for_Singer_Fleeing_the_Taliban

What Petraeus Understands
The United States and NATO need an approach that wins over the Pashtuns, looks for Taliban converts, and uses the resulting intelligence in a very focused counterterrorist campaign against al Qaeda. Unfortunately, this is contrary to the dominant thinking in the policy debate.
http://digg.com/world_news/What_Petraeus_Understands

Pashtuns Say They Are Caught In Someone Else's War
With recent cross-border attacks by U.S. forces inside Pakistan's tribal areas, the focus of the war on terror is shifting to the Pashtun regions of Pakistan and is likely to intensify.
http://digg.com/world_news/Pashtuns_Say_They_Are_Caught_In_Someone_Else_s_War

Shh, It's an Open Secret: Warlords and Pedophilia
Though the puritanical Taliban tried hard to erase pedophilia from male-dominated Pashtun culture, now that the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is gone, some people here are indulging in it once again.
http://digg.com/politics/Shh_It_s_an_Open_Secret_Warlords_and_Pedophilia

Military offensive displaces 300,000 in north-west Pakistan
A major offensive by the Pakistani military against Islamist militants in the country’s Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) and North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has effectively become a campaign of collective punishment against the fiercely independent Pashtun tribes that live in the region.
http://digg.com/world_news/Military_offensive_displaces_300_000_in_north_west_Pakistan

Current Afghan conflict is centuries-old feud between tribes
It's a centuries-old tribal feud pitting Afghanistan's noble clans against the perennial outsiders - and Canada and its allies have been dragged into the middle of it. The current conflict in Afghanistan is only the latest chapter in three centuries of squabbling between the two main tribal clans of the country's dominant Pashtun ethnic group.
http://digg.com/world_news/Current_Afghan_conflict_is_centuries_old_feud_between_tribes