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 recent powerful earthquake has imperiled the future of tens of thousands of students as they struggle to continue education in schools and colleges destroyed or partially damaged by the tremor.
A new report argues that a proposed plan of Chinese-financed transnational road and rail links connecting Beijing to Central Asia, South Asia, and Europe could herald stability in Afghanistan.
During their bloodiest campaign in 14 years, the Taliban have captured large swaths of Afghan territory this year. What is really behind this military momentum that has even raised the specter of a Taliban return to power in Afghanistan?
In a country ravaged by great power intervention, regional rivalries, competing ideologies and intense personal and factional rivalries, Afghans are engaged in an endless debate over who among their elites are serving their foreign masters.
The residents of a remote Afghan district overran by the Islamic State militants speak of extreme violence and oppression by fighters seemingly bent on changing their way of life.
The fall of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan brings home the threats posed by the rapid rise of the Taliban and its international militant allies to Central Asian nations.
The Taliban capture of a strategic city in northern Afghanistan has exposed the weaknesses of a government struggling to preserve unity among its ranks while fighting escalating violence and an economic downturn.
Politicians in Pakistan's Balochistan Province have called on the country's mushrooming electronic media to pay attention to their beleaguered homeland.
Human rights defenders in a restive Pakistani province have rejected government claims that the counterinsurgency militias it once supported have stopped extrajudicial killings.
An Afghan teacher who has dedicated her life to educating girls in impoverished refugee communities speaks of her motivations and challenges.
Instead of working on preventing a sophisticated Taliban assault, officials in one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous provinces are preoccupied with never-ending disputes over land ownership.
Lawmakers from Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas say the country's powerful military is backing proposed legislation aimed at integrating the restive region into the mainstream.
The death of Allah Nazar Baloch, if confirmed, could prove a major blow to nationalist Baluch separatists, whose ongoing insurrection against Pakistan has lasted more than a decade.
Disagreements among top Afghan Taliban leaders have now seeped down to fighters, resulting in violent clashes potentially escalating into a full-fledged war among the insurgents.
Pakistan claims to be a major victim of terrorism but newspapers, magazines, and websites supporting violence are thriving and have nearly achieved the status of an industry in the country.
After heavy fighting, Talban militants have grabbed a key district in restive Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
Beijing wants to restore cooperative relations between Islamabad and Kabul after a recent spat over accusations of sponsoring terror.
Afghanistan's army is attracting a large number of recruits in restive southern provinces despite fighting the biggest Taliban offensive during the past 13 years.
Afghan first vice president has blamed Pakistani intelligence for fomenting violence in his country while claiming success in an ongoing anti-Taliban offensive he is leading.
Afghanistan's often-divided clerical establishment is uniting to counter rebels who claim to be fighting for establishing an Islamic utopia.
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