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.
In his new year message to the Afghan leadership, Pakistan’s new army chief has pledged to work for peace with the neighboring country.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say strongmen and community leaders have grabbed nearly two-thirds of all government land in the region.
While some Taliban leaders are apparently active in southern Afghanistan, there is no definitive proof that the entire insurgent chain of command now operates from within Afghanistan.
Russia is jostling for a new role in Afghanistan following the end of NATO’s combat mission in the country at the end of 2014.
Afghans have denounced the recent public execution of a university student by the insurgent from the hard-line Taliban movement.
North Waziristan residents say the region is now militant-free and a tenuous peace has returned to towns and villages where civilians were tormented by suicide bombings and assassinations, Pakistani military counterterrorism sweeps, and U.S. drone strikes targeting militant leaders.
In the two years of its existence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater, the Islamic State (IS) militants have attempted to materialize their grand ambition of recreating the Khorasan province of their global Islamist empire.
The likely reopening of a major trade route with Afghanistan has brought joy to North Waziristan, a beleaguered tribal district in northwestern Pakistan.
Islamic State (IS) militants are trying to foment a war between Afghanistan’s majority Sunnis and minority Shi’ite Muslims, who have largely avoided a sectarian conflict.
A group of veiled Pakistani women protest in their country’s northwestern city of Peshawar.
Welcome to the first episode of the Gandhara Podcast. Our aim is to bring you informed perspectives and engaging discussions on pressing issues and the latest developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan and Pakistan figured prominently on the foreign policy agendas of two U.S. presidents during the past 16 years.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could change the fate of a Pakistani man.
Lawmakers in an eastern Afghan province reeling from atrocities and attacks by the Islamic State (IS) are worried over the ultra-radical group’s strength for more than a year in the face of a relentless Afghan military operation.
Until recently, the southern Afghan province of Kandahar was seen as an oasis of security and stability amid a Taliban onslaught that saw the hard-line militants overrunning large swaths of neighboring provinces.
A new generation of Afghan activists is trying to end exploitative customs that often result in lifelong pain and misery for women and their families among the region’s Pashtun clans.
A senior Afghan security official says his forces will fight to take back most of the territories lost to the Taliban in Afghanistan’s largest province.
The Afghan Taliban are facing unprecedented internal struggles and external pressures amid their biggest military push to seize the country.
The youth in a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are determined to rebuild their lives and strive for their rights after suffering years of terrorist brutality and displacement.
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