For more than two decades, the security forces of the Pakistani state and their US allies have run amok in the name of suppressing the Pakistan Taliban, levelling entire villages and wantonly violating human rights.

At least three people were killed in clashes Wednesday between Pakistani police and supporters of a rights group advocating for the Pashtun ethnic minority, angered by a government ban imposed on the organization this week,

Islamabad has justified its decision to outlaw the regional Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, citing its alleged incitement of violence against the state and attempts to establish a ‘parallel judicial system