Pashtun (Pakhtun, Pushtoon) refers to the predominant ethnic group of Afghanistan, which has for centuries represented the political and military elite. Before the eighteenth century, the Pashtan were also known as Afghans, but with the creation of...

rect 0 0 14 14 This is a featured article. Click here for more information. desc none Pashtuns (Pashto/Urdu/Persian: پشتون Paštūn or پختون...

Karl E. Meyer is editor of the World Policy Journal and co-author, with Shareen Brysac, of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. As the Afghan war enters a chronic rather than accute stage we would...

KANDAHAR-In a mirrored marble banquet hall in this dusty southern Afghan city in the former heartland of the Taliban, where an ancient tribal code still ensures that women are rarely seen or heard in public, Safia Siddiqi is rallying a gathering of raptly attentive...

When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.The toddler was engaged to...