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.
Civilians in the restive northeastern province of Kunduz say authorities in the region have failed to disarm thousands of armed men whose livelihoods now mostly depend on extortion, kidnappings, and murders.
The Afghan official in charge of looking after the archeological remains in Bamiyan Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site, says they are threatened with complete annihilation.
An estimated half a million Mehsuds are once again threatening to abandon their towns and villages in South Waziristan if authorities fail to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance from the mountainous regions.
In Pakistan Afghan refugees feel caught between Islamabad and Washington as bilateral relations rapidly deteriorate after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Pakistan on January 1 of “lies and deceit” while providing a safe haven to terrorists that U.S. forces are seeking to counter in Afghanistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan says his administration is now investigating the alleged political engineering by the country’s secret services.
Afghan lawmakers are urging their government to undertake a range of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic steps to stop Iran from recruiting Afghans to fight its war in Syria.
Pakistan’s beleaguered southwestern province of Balochistan is in the midst of a political crisis as its provincial government faces ouster through a no-confidence vote.
Whether the United States and Pakistan are heading toward a complete breakdown in their fraught relations or can yet again pull back from the brink.
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged some soul-searching and called on the country’s powerful military establishment to abandon self-deception.
Afghanistan’s Taliban movement is nearly a quarter-century-old, but it is still open to various interpretations that cloud its strategy, tactics, and ultimate future aims.
ears of government crackdowns and political maneuvering have prevented a fragmented Baluch nationalist insurgency from taking hold. But Islamabad's tough handling has added to the grievances in a region reeling from underdevelopment, poverty, and neglect.
For more than two years, a resilient Islamic State (IS) militant cell in northern Afghanistan has grown amid tough fighting against its Taliban enemies and crumbling government authority.
Early this month, military authorities in South Waziristan ordered more than 1,100 Shabikhel families in leaving their homes once again. The displaced families were residents of the Shaktoi, Smaal, and Bobarh villages in Ladha.
A quarter-century after the demise of the Soviet Union, tens of thousands of Tajiks, whose ancestors fled their homes into Afghanistan nearly 90 years ago, have yet to return to their homeland and be reunited with their families.
A razor wire fence, more than 3 meters tall along the nearly 2,500-kilometer 19th-century Durand Line is unlikely to address the real drivers of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This episode of Gandhara podcast is aimed at understanding the reasons behind the current spike in attacks on Afghan security forces.
For nearly half a century, Pakistan’s covert alliance with the followers of an Afghan rebel cleric withstood a Soviet invasion, an Afghan civil war, and the U.S. war on terrorism.
As Afghanistan grapples with a spate of deadly attacks by the Taliban, one remote provincial capital seems to have figured out a way to address security concerns.
This week began on a positive note for Afghanistan as the country’s diplomats joined their Pakistani, U.S., and Chinese colleagues to restart peace talks with the Taliban and cultivate a cooperative relationship between Kabul and Islamabad.
Tens of thousands of civilians are returning to ruined houses and devastated livelihoods in Nad-e Ali. With the aid of U.S. forces and airpower, Afghan forces are slowly reclaiming lost territories in Helmand.
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