Security, Identity and the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Discourse in Pakistan

Security, Identity and the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Discourse in Pakistan

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) is one of the most prominent yet contentious sociopolitical phenomena in recent Pakistani history. Emerging from the conflict, displacement and counterterrorism of post 9/11, from the northwestern borderlands of Pakistan, the PTM has helped to give voice to grievances that have long festered in the Pashtun population over issues of marginalization, militarization and human rights abuses.  However, in the broade…