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.
Tehran has sent thousands of Afghans and Pakistani Shi’a to the war in Syria to fight for its ally, President Bashar al-Assad.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appears keen to end illegal payoffs allegedly paid by cabinet members to secure endorsements from lawmakers.
The residents of a beleaguered province in northeastern Afghanistan fear losing essential services and key aid after the departure of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Tribal leaders in a remote alpine valley in eastern Afghanistan say Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants are using large-scale logging to fund their violent campaigns.
This week, millions of Afghans and Pakistanis saw a rerun of the scenes that hyped hopes for resetting fraught relations between their neighboring countries.
For some time now, Beijing and Islamabad have been eager to highlight their close military and diplomatic alliance, which has now extended to an enduring economic partnership.
Khan Beguma’s story is a tale of unending agony and inspiring courage and resilience.
Noor Kalam Wazir had to abandon his dream of becoming a scientist after fighting forced his family to abandon their North Waziristan homeland in northwestern Pakistan three years ago.
Countries adapted to celebrating their religious, racial, ethnic, and linguist diversity are typically stable and prosperous and face fewer domestic and external threats.
Afghanistan’s biggest success story is not in wars, politics or reconstruction, where most of international aid and Afghan energy have been focused for decades.
Sixteen years after Al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the U.S-led international intervention has transformed Afghanistan.
For years, China had Pakistan’s back as it faced criticism over its alleged support for or inability to curb Islamist militant organizations often accused of fomenting insurgencies and terrorist attacks in neighboring Afghanistan and India.
As Afghans celebrate the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Adha, they are cautiously witnessing some moves toward peace in their country, which has suffered through wars and violence for nearly four decades.
Rauf is one the 15 former Taliban leaders and senior officials that Raziq recently claimed have returned from Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, to live peacefully in Kandahar.
For decades, Pakistan’s quest to shape neighboring Afghanistan by supporting hard-line Islamist militants has faced feeble but noisy opposition from the country’s politicians and intellectuals.
The new U.S. "strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia" is being debated in the country and around the globe after President Donald Trump laid it out late on August 21.
Two weeks after his ouster, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has shown he is still one of the most popular political leaders in the country.
For generations, women across Afghanistan have suffered in silence as their men engaged in war and violence, often leaving them as widows and orphans.
A Pakistani political party that once promised to cleanse the upper echelons of government from corruption is now falling apart over graft allegations among the members of its provincial administration.
A senior Afghan official has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of providing sanctuaries and material support to the Afghan Taliban.
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