How to Use Pashtun in a Sentence

Pashtun

noun

• For one, Pashtun nationalists will always have problems with a border that slices their heartland in two.
  — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
• Afghanistan has never formally recognised the border, drawn in 1893 through ethnic Pashtun areas.
  — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
• Sustained military pressure on militants is undermined by limited political engagement with Baloch and Pashtun groups and continued safe havens across Afghanistan.
  — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
• Afghans are ethnically and culturally plural — Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Pashtun; Sunni and Shia — many rejecting gender exclusion.
  — Nargis Habib, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
• Named after British diplomat Mortimer Durand and established in 1893, the line cuts through the heartland of the tribal areas of the Pashtun, Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group and also the group from which the Afghan Taliban stem.
  — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Recently, the same law has been invoked against Pashtun rights advocates in Pakistan and celebrated Indian author Arundhati Roy, who now also faces terrorism charges under India's draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
  — Stephen Townley, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025