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 new book about Pakistan’s premier spy service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, portrays an organization working to preserve military dominance while both fighting and fomenting insurgencies.
Thousands of families have fled while tens of thousands more face worsening conditions as Afghan forces and the Taliban fight over a key provincial capital in northern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials point to systemic weaknesses within the government forces as the main reason for the Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan’s largest province, Helmand.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban insurgents have criticized an Afghan Islamist leader for concluding a peace deal with the government in Kabul.
A recent suicide attack on a mosque in northwestern Pakistan that killed 36 worshippers, mostly teenagers, has left grief and agony in its wake and generated anger at the government’s failure to help the victims.
Indian support for a simmering separatist struggle in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan is unlikely to radically alter the conflict in the resource-rich and strategically located restive region.
A separatist faction in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has called on India to intervene in the simmering conflict in the region. In 1971, Bangladesh emerged after Indian forces defeated the Pakistani military to end a gruesome civil war.
The residents of a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are attempting to rebuild their homeland after enduring years of terrorist tyranny and displacement by military operations.
Pakistan’s powerful military says it is investigating the reported beating of highway police officials by army officers who were allegedly enraged after cops gave them tickets for violating traffic laws.
A leading Western scholar of Afghanistan says Pakistan is now exaggerating its control over the Afghan Taliban to win concessions and be seen as holding a key to resolving the conflict in their country.
For decades, Islamabad largely ignored the free flow of insurgents, refugees, and weapons across its western border with Afghanistan. But its ongoing efforts to control the border are unlikely to help Afghanistan as it reels from a resilient Taliban insurgency that Kabul claims is orchestrated by Islamabad
Residents of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, have urged Kabul to swiftly move to end their city’s nearly four-month siege by the Taliban, who have made significant gains in recent weeks.
Many Afghans who recently left Pakistan because of police brutality and government pressure are now discovering their war-torn homeland is not welcoming, either.
The killing of a generation of lawyers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in a suicide attack has paused the wheels of justice in the vast region reeling from separatist and Islamist violence and a harsh military crackdown.
Afghan government mistakes and weaknesses have aided the Taliban’s advances in Helmand. This key province in southern Afghanistan is central to the insurgents’ drive to return to power.
Afghan forces are trying to hold off a Taliban offensive that has effectively besieged the capital of Afghanistan’s largest province.
In the wake of one of this year’s most devastating attacks on civilians in Pakistan, critics and politicians are once again questioning Islamabad’s counterterrorism policies.
The Taliban have cut off a major highway to Lashkar Gah, the besieged capital of the restive southern province of Helmand where insurgents claims to have made significant advances recently.
The Islamic State extensively used schools, mosques, and civilian homes as their dug-in positions in regions where they established control though intimidation and extreme violence.
Tentative peace has returned to a mountainous valley in eastern Afghanistan that was once the venue of some of the most iconic battles of the current phase of the Afghan war.
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