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.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan is determined to build a relationship with Islamabad based on common interests.
Cross-border attacks by little-known Sunni Islamist militants are straining Pakistan-Iran relations.
Officials have failed to address the assassinations, kidnappings, and threats that continue to target journalists in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province.
Afghans expect their new national unity administration to move swiftly to end uncertainty and deliver security and prosperity.
Deal brokered to end the months-long election standoff is just the beginning, analysts say.
Nearly one million residents of Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region are desperate to repatriate to their homeland.
Afghan officials and members of border communities strongly oppose a trench along Pakistan's western border with Afghanistan.
Several journalists have been severely beaten and harassed while reporting on unrest in Islamabad.
The party calling for the dissolution of the government faces dissent within its own ranks.
Thousands of displaced families from the North Waziristan tribal district are reluctant to leave school buildings in the nearby districts of Bannu and Lakki Marwat because of high rents and a lack of government aid.
Demonstrations demanding the dissolution of the Pakistani government have drawn widespread criticism across the country.
A deepening blood feud between the clan of a powerful Afghan provincial security chief and the Taliban has resulted in a series of assassinations in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The next Afghan leader will be taking charge of a country that has evolved remarkably in recent years, but his success will depend on healing the wounds of factionalism and lawlessness.
Politicians, lawyers, and human rights campaigners are opposing a new Pakistani counterterrorism law, arguing that it threatens human rights by granting sweeping powers to security forces.
Weeks after its launch, a Pakistani military offensive in a northwestern region appears to have had little impact on dismantling Taliban and allied extremist groups.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have spoken of a new cooperative relationship to combat terrorism and resilient Taliban insurgencies in the two neighboring countries amid longstanding disagreements and mistrust.
The Taliban organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan are undergoing unprecedented divisions that pose both new opportunities and challenges for the two neighbors battling insurgencies.
Afghanistan's top soldier said conflicting maps of the country’s long and porous eastern border with Pakistan are adding to cross-border tensions between the two countries.
A rift within the top fugitive leaders of Afghanistan's hardline Taliban is seen as having far-reaching consequences for the movement's future and Kabul's efforts to conclude peace with the insurgents.
A quiet, little-know bureaucrat has emerged as Pakistan's point man for concluding peace with the Taliban, whose ruthless decade-old insurgency has killed tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers.
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