Kabul, Feb. 4 -- : Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in response to Pakistan's Ambassador to UN Munir Akram's comments on Pashtuns said that his comments are "disgraceful" and he should apologize to 50 million Pashtuns in Pakistan, Afghanistan based News Agency Khaama Press reported.

Munir Akram had in a UN meeting said that the restrictions being put by the Taliban on Afghanistan flow not so much from a religious perspective as from a peculiar cultural perspective of the Pashtun culture.

"And this is a peculiar, distinctive cultural reality of Afghanistan which has not changed for hundreds of years," Akram had said.

Yousafzai in response said that the remarks of Pakistan's envoy to the UN are shamef...