Pashtun / Pashtunwali / Pashtunistan (catch all)

[Jedburgh]

First issue of a new publication from the Aryana Institute of Regional Research and Advocacy:

Kyber - The Voices of Pashtuns, June 2009

Kyber is an initiative to engage the Pashtun intelligentia and youth, both in the homeland and in the diaspora with the aim to discuss Pashtun issues and contribute to a more informed debate on the Pashtun question on both sides of the Durand Line. The magazine also intends to provide a forum to our youth to remain in touch with their culture, art and literature and at the same time, to illustrate a softer image of the Pashtun to the outer world.

Articles include:

• Pashtun Population: An Estimate

• Pashtun Besieged: Is there a way out?

• Pashtun Ethnic Cleansing and Opportunity for Peace

• What do we (Pashtun) need?

• The code of Pashtunwali

• IDPs Crisis and Governance Confusion

• IDPs updates as on 8-5-2009

• Irfan Khan Revealed Interview with Irfan Khan

• Video (Specially edited for KHYBER)

• Afghani Cuisine

• Green Tea of Peshawar

[George L. Singleton]

Thanks for all these Pashtun background info posts, some of which I did not know about.

Simplified the folks who are the Taliban are Pakhtuns, in the main, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. There is nothing "honorable" about abusing women and children, and other more gross and fatal acts that are common practice by the Taliban "using the excuse of religion" in today's world.

But you all know this.

Again, thanks for some citations I will not take time to explore which I formerly was unaware of.