NEW DELHI: Pakistan's Kashmir project came to head with its failure on the Pashtun front in Kabul when scores of native Pashtuns descended in front of the Pakistan embassy there while it was trying to hold Kashmir Solidarity Day function.The Pashtuns were protesting the continued detention of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Manzoor Pashteen by Pakistan. The showdown wrecked Pakistan's plans for the day as a local hotel, where another Kashmir event was planned by the Pak mission, cancelled the booking.A riled Pakistan Embassy, ET has reliably gathered, then shoot off a diplomatic protest to the Afghan Foreign Ministry launching complain against Intercontinental Hotel which cancelled the event on “Kashmir solidarity day”.Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns last week to protest the detention of Pashteen. Last week Pashteen’s detention parked protests outside the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, as well as in seven provinces in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan: Nangarhar, Kunar, Logar, Bamyan, Khost, Uruzgan, and Kandahar.Pashteen who has criticized the Pakistani military's operations in the northwestern tribal regions, was detained in the city of Peshawar, and a court rejected his bail application on January 28.President Ashraf Ghani expressed concerns over Pashteen’s detention and said governments in the region "must support and encourage peaceful civilian movements for justice and must avoid any means of force and violence against these movements."The Pakistani Foreign Ministry reacted by calling Ghani's comments "a clear interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs and hence, unwarranted."The PTM leader is accused of sedition, hate speech, incitement against the state, and criminal conspiracy. The PTM was launched by Pashteen to address the many grievances of Pashtuns, who are the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan and mostly live in the north-western part of the country, close to the Afghanistan border.On January 13 2019, a young man named Naqeebullah Mehsud was killed in an alleged shoot-out in Karachi. The police initially claimed that Mehsud was a member of the Pakistani Taliban and was killed during a raid on a terrorist hideout.Pashteen called for a march from Waziristan towards Islamabad. Thousands joined Pashteen on his way to the capital city demanding justice not just for the murdered man, but for all Pashtuns who have been facing discrimination in Pakistan.This march rapidly transformed into a nationwide rights movement and the PTM was born.