The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) began as a grassroots initiative advocating for the rights of the Pashtun people, catalyzed by the tragic killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, who was allegedly murdered ...

Police in the Pakistani capital have arrested a top leader of a civil rights movement campaigning against alleged military abuses in the country’s restive northwestern Pashtun tribal regions. Lawmaker ...

The arrest of a young leader was intended to suppress a civil rights movement critical of the Pakistani Army’s conduct in the country’s northwestern Pashtun homeland. Instead, this week’s detention of ...

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its Loya Jirga grand assembly on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the ...

Leaders and supporters of a civil rights movement campaigning against alleged abuses by the security forces and the Taliban in western Pakistan’s Pashtun heartland are preparing to launch a new ...

Days after the federal government banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government announced that it would strictly implement the ban on the activities of the Manzoor ...

PTM’s criticism of the Pakistani military is furious, but their methods are constitutional and Islamabad would be better off listening. Notwithstanding the flagrant criticism of Pakistan’s powerful ...

Since its emergence only a few months ago, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) has been gaining support and momentum. The movement has been able to organize protest gatherings at different cities of ...

The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench has granted bail to Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir, ruling that his detention under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Act was unlawful.

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has imposed a ban on the Manzoor Pashteen-led Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), citing the party’s activities as prejudicial to the peace and security of the country.

Women from a Pakistani tribal areas hold pictures of missing family members while participating in a rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Pakistan (April 8, 2018). Credit: AP Photo/Mohammad ...