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.
A former Afghan spymaster is skeptical that the Islamic State (IS) militants are capable of carrying out complex urban attacks such as the recent deadly assault on a military hospital in the capital, Kabul.
A northwestern Pakistani region dubbed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world” is finally getting some positive press.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban movement is expressing interest in peace talks amid calls for its contact office in Qatar to be closed.
A planned census in Pakistan this month has revived old controversies in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
Following an ongoing wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, the country is once again engaged in a blame game with neighboring Afghanistan.
A renewed row over terrorist sanctuaries between Afghanistan and Pakistan is likely to boost the prospects of terrorists thriving amid seemingly endless blame games and finger-pointing between the two countries.
Home to several secular political movements, the vast mineral-rich province of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan once prided itself on tolerance and diversity as its various religious and ethnic communities lived in harmony.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated support for long-awaited reforms that might see the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merge into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
An advocacy group campaigning for promoting women’s rights in Afghanistan says violence against women is on the rise in the country.
A battle in a remote district in southern Afghanistan is likely to shape the future of the struggle for the country’s largest province.
The families of four social media bloggers in Pakistan had a respite when their loved ones returned home after vanishing for nearly three weeks last month.
Officials in a restive southern Afghan province say disparate fighters associated with the Islamic State (IS) militants have now established training camps in remote mountains.
Islamabad is set to initiate new legislation that would merge the country’s restive northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Convicted drug dealers, murders, rapists, and insurgents are locked away in Afghanistan’s biggest prison, secured behind massive iron gates and surrounded by tall walls lined with barbed wire.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has told Pakistan’s powerful army chief that the militants responsible for recent high-profile attacks in Afghanistan are living and operating with impunity in Pakistan.
A tiny Shi’ite minority survived years of siege and relentless militant attacks by taking up guns to defend their picturesque homeland in northwest Pakistan.
James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general nominated to be the next U.S. defense secretary, plans to provide incentives to Islamabad to go against militant groups operating from its soil.
For over three decades, current Afghan First Vice President General Rashid Dostum has been a fixture on the Afghan political and military scene.
Afghan lawmakers have begun an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s rapidly disappearing forests.
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