Two great nations, centuries-old bonds, and mutual respect,
Baloch and Pashtun✌️🌹
The Taliban’s Border Rhetoric: Pashtun Frontiers, Not Central Asian Borders
There are rays of hope even in the darkest of times.
#IdrisKhattak is a #Pakistani human rights
defender, member of the #Pashtun minority, and a former consultant with #AmnestyInternational and #HumanRightsWatch. In November 2019, he was abducted and forcibly disappeared; authorities finally acknowledged in June 2020 that he had been detained by military intelligence. In December 2021, he was convicted in a secret trial by a military court and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for alleging sharing classified information.
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"#GilamanWazir, è stato bastonato e picchiato a morte il 9 Luglio a Islamabad da membri dell’intelligence pakistana; dopo aver riportato gravi ferite alla testa, ha lottato per due giorni per sopravvivere, ma è morto l’11 Luglio in ospedale a Islamabad."
#TIL that there is a #Pashtun subtribe called the #Toran.
Does anyone know of a good resource of information on this tribal group? #Wikipedia doesn't have a lot of information!
I like to look into anything that shares my first name, as it's not a common one (at least not in the Western world)! 🙂