Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Former King Mohammed Zahir Shah may aspire to be a man for all ethnic groups in Afghanistan, but to his fellow Pashtuns he is above all else one of their own. Zahir Shah’s most loyal subjects shower ...

Pakistan’s moral and material support to Afghan Pashtuns, oftentimes at the expense of other Afghan ethnic groups, hasn’t served Pakistan well. Since Pakistan is directly involved in the Afghan peace ...

Something big is brewing in Pakistan—a development that is wholly unprecedented, yet so contentious that many major media outlets in the country aren’t covering it. Pashtuns—an ethnic minority in ...

Pakistan’s powerful army would seem to have little to fear from a scrappy group of protesters nobody had heard of until recently. But nearly four months after the Pashtun Tahafuz (protection) Movement ...

PABBI, Pakistan — When a male child is born in a Pashtun village, gunfire is the first sound he hears. Pashtun men celebrate the birth of a brand-new warrior by firing their rifles into the sky, and ...

The most spectacular acts of terrorism in the last decade have not been committed by Afghans. The September 11 attacks were perpetrated mostly by Saudis, the Madrid train bombings by North African ...

Khush Rung’s living room is a sobering reminder of just how fragile peace remains in Afghanistan’s ruined capital one day after rebels grasped power. Stacked against a dingy back wall are all of ...

Pashtuns straddling the Pakistani-Afghan border face serious challenges to their socio-cultural survival. It's very hard for the estimated 50 million Pashtuns to know whether the world recognizes ...