Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan.
Residents of the beleaguered southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni say that a lack of security, health care, and diminishing food supplies are endangering tens of thousands of residents who are caught up in the fighting
The estimated 3,000 displaced families from Shawal are part of 14,369 families still awaiting government permission and assistance in returning to North Waziristan.
Officials in northern Afghanistan say they are working to put more than 250 surrendered Islamic State (IS) fighters on trial for grave human rights abuses.
Just like his numerous civilain predecessors over the past seven decades, Imran Khan eventually must grapple with the fundamental question of who wields the real power in Pakistan.
Days after emerging as the majority party in the central parliament, winning a smaller province and ending up a close runner-up in Pakistan’s largest province, the PTI is grappling with the fundamental realities of Pakistani politics.
As millions of Pakistanis prepare to vote in the July 25 election, residents of one remote village in a restive northwestern corner of the country are boycotting the polls.
e July 25 vote is set to lead Pakistan to greater instability with intense political wrangling, a worsening economy, and greater insecurity.
Few places can be more symbolic for demanding peace than a road divided between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban in one of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces.
Health officials in a restive Afghan province say three-quarters of children under the age of 5 are being denied a vaccination against the crippling infectious disease polio.
Ahead of a crucial parliamentary election next month, Pakistan’s major political parties face the challenge of answering the public’s demand for accountability and transparency while trying to maintain a united front amid pressures and leadership crises.
Officials and residents in eastern Afghanistan say clashes between the hard-line Afghan Taliban and the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) have continued for a second day.
A judge in southern Pakistan has resigned from his job three days after the country’s top judge admonished him in front of television cameras.
The protest is part of a plan to attract the attention of countries and international organizations, which the activists say are vital to peace in Afghanistan.
In a sign that a restive northwestern Pakistani region is recovering from decades of sectarian unrest, hundreds of displaced Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim families have begun returning to their homes.
In rural Afghanistan, the Taliban have now banned adolescent girls from getting an education after forcing some schools to close and imposing their own curriculum on others.
Mullah Fazlullah's reported death in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan last week has prompted many of his prominent victims to questioned Islamabad’s counterterrorism gains given that most senior Taliban figures were reportedly killed in attacks by unmanned U.S. drone aircrafts.
Residents of Afghanistan’s restive, teeming capital have struggled for years with terrorist attacks, a lack of services, a booming population, clogged traffic, and toxic air.
In Waziristan the Taliban have apparently thrived by becoming a government-backed militia that officials, members, and supporters call the Aman (Peace) Committee.
In its recent report issued on May 31, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan said it has received 5,177 cases of alleged enforced disappearances since its inception in 2011.
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