Building on interviews with movement leaders and campaign participants in the field, this special report answers the following questions:

■ How and why did the PTM emerge? Why do the Pakistani Pashtuns engage in nonviolent resistance as part of the PTM?

■ What is the PTM leadership and organizational structure and how diverse is its membership?

■ What role do women play in the PTM?

■ What are nonviolent resistance tactics and strategies that the PTM has adopted to advance Pakistani Pashtuns’ civil rights?

■ How does the PTM remain nonviolent in the face of state violence?

■ What is the impact of the PTM’s grassroots organizing and nonviolent resistance?

■ What are the key lessons learned from the PTM experience?

Qamar Jafri