This paper examines the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement as a form of resistance that directly disrupts imperial extractivism and militarised governance in Pakistan. It argues that PTM becomes threatening to global and domestic power by obstructing the political, territorial, and legal conditions of resource extraction and securitisation. Grounded in an embedded, movement-based perspective, the paper shows how demands for demilitarisation, land rights, and popular sovereignty challenge internal colonialism and US-aligned geopolitical interests.