Young Activists, Fed Up With Alleged Abuses, Challenge Pakistan’s Military

Movement wants to end fighting in Pashtun areas of country’s northwest, where government’s war on terror has focused

BANNU, Pakistan—A movement of young activists, tired of being caught up in the crossfire of the war on terror in Pakistan’s northwest, is challenging the country’s military.

The group, from the Pashtun ethnic minority, is pushing back against what it sees as systematic human-rights abuses by Pakistan’s powerful military and its sincerity in combating all terrorist organizations.

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