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.
Pakistan is witnessing a new reiteration of an old political drama. Yet another elected prime minister has been ousted from power before completing his term in office.
High in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains, drug addiction has turned into a survival strategy for an impoverished community in an isolated alpine village.
Pakistan’s numerous Islamist political parties are scrambling to unite in an electoral alliance before the parliamentary elections scheduled for next year.
As the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State (IS) crumbles in Iraq and Syria, Afghanistan is bracing for an influx of radical fighters from the Middle East.
Beijing is attempting to achieve what has evaded Islamabad and Kabul for decades -- meaningful cooperation and stable bilateral relations based on mutual trust and respect for each other’s sovereignty.
In a sign of entrenched mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghan lawmakers and officials have opposed Islamabad’s new offensive against the Islamic State (IS) militants.
A former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says the proposed antiterrorism cooperation between Islamabad and Kabul is unlikely to succeed.
The escalating fighting between the hard-line Afghan Taliban and ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) has now reached a new frontline in Afghanistan.
Each of the thousands of protesters in a remote northwestern Pakistani city had either lost a relative or knows someone among the more than 250 people killed and wounded in the most recent bombings.
Balochistan, a vast region straddling the Iranian Plateau in southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran, and southern Afghanistan, has for decades been a crossroads of complex insurgencies and regional rivalries.
Former and current Afghan security officials and lawmakers have welcomed an expected reorientation of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, which is now predicted to focus on ending militant sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he expects to soon lay out options for a strategy in Afghanistan before U.S. President Donald Trump.
Generations of Christians in a remote corner of Pakistan have been buried in a local cemetery that served as the final resting place for the region’s non-Muslim minorities.
Hundreds of young Afghans are franticly cleaning the field after building a cricket pitch under the starry sky.
With the Taliban’s violence in Afghanistan rapidly escalating, there is still no clarity on what strategy the United States is likely to adopt to prevent the situation from reaching a tipping point.
Pakistan has always pushed back against accusations that it orchestrates the Taliban’s violent campaign in Afghanistan, instead saying stability in the neighboring country serves its interests.
Lawmakers in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan say Islamic State (IS) militants are carving a new sanctuary in the province by recruiting from parts of the remote mountainous region.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the execution of 11 Taliban commanders following a massive truck bombing in the capital that killed and injured some 500 people.
Afghan officials claim that some Iranian fighters have joined the ranks of Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan.
Severe power cuts during the holy month of Ramadan, when most of Pakistan’s estimated 200 million Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, have prompted violent protests in the scorching temperatures of summer.
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