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.
Few places can be more symbolic for demanding peace than a road divided between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban in one of Afghanistan’s most volatile provinces.
Health officials in a restive Afghan province say three-quarters of children under the age of 5 are being denied a vaccination against the crippling infectious disease polio.
Ahead of a crucial parliamentary election next month, Pakistan’s major political parties face the challenge of answering the public’s demand for accountability and transparency while trying to maintain a united front amid pressures and leadership crises.
Officials and residents in eastern Afghanistan say clashes between the hard-line Afghan Taliban and the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) have continued for a second day.
A judge in southern Pakistan has resigned from his job three days after the country’s top judge admonished him in front of television cameras.
The protest is part of a plan to attract the attention of countries and international organizations, which the activists say are vital to peace in Afghanistan.
In a sign that a restive northwestern Pakistani region is recovering from decades of sectarian unrest, hundreds of displaced Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim families have begun returning to their homes.
In rural Afghanistan, the Taliban have now banned adolescent girls from getting an education after forcing some schools to close and imposing their own curriculum on others.
Mullah Fazlullah's reported death in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan last week has prompted many of his prominent victims to questioned Islamabad’s counterterrorism gains given that most senior Taliban figures were reportedly killed in attacks by unmanned U.S. drone aircrafts.
Residents of Afghanistan’s restive, teeming capital have struggled for years with terrorist attacks, a lack of services, a booming population, clogged traffic, and toxic air.
In Waziristan the Taliban have apparently thrived by becoming a government-backed militia that officials, members, and supporters call the Aman (Peace) Committee.
In its recent report issued on May 31, the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan said it has received 5,177 cases of alleged enforced disappearances since its inception in 2011.
Realizing administrative, judicial, security, and economic reforms will be a lengthy process susceptible to setbacks and controversies. Political and social problems exacerbated by FATA’s status as a key theater in the global war against terrorism for the past 15 years are equally pressing.
The lower house of the Pakistani Parliament has adopted a landmark constitutional amendment to merge the northwestern tribal region into the neighboring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Manzoor Pashteen says the beatings, sleeplessness, harassment, searches, questioning, and constant surveillance he endured during that journey on May 12 and 13 have strengthened his resolve and made it crystal-clear to him why the authorities were desperate to prevent him from addressing tens of thousands of supporters in Karachi.
Thousands of residents in northwestern Pakistan are staging a sit-in protest to pressure authorities into arresting those responsible for a string of recent murders.
A new movement demanding security for Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun minority is calling for the country’s leaders to roll back destructive policies that have fomented domestic volatility, ruined neighboring Afghanistan and fueled the longest war in U.S. history.
Afghanistan’s top security officials and lawmakers are at loggerheads over who is responsible for preventing deadly terrorist attacks in the capital that have killed and injured hundreds this year alone.
The fall of several rural districts in northern Afghanistan this month heralds a new push by the insurgents to tighten their grip on contested regions and threaten elections scheduled for this fall.
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