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.
Taliban control over the ancestral village of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has forced schools to close in the rural community.
Pakistani government-sponsored legislation aimed at reforming the archaic governance regime in the country’s beleaguered northwestern tribal areas has stalled because of disagreements within the ruling coalition.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan’s most prominent Islamist leaders, is back in Kabul as part of a comprehensive peace deal with the government after more than two decades of self-imposed exile.
Afghanistan’s Taliban are bankrolling their violent campaign by taking a large cut from the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars that come from the illegal poppy crop grown in the regions they control.
Battlefield exchanges and covert assassinations herald an expanding war between the Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The repercussions of a Taliban massacre of more than 130 Afghan soldiers at an army base in northern Afghanistan last week are being felt widely.
Residents of North Waziristan, one of the seven districts in western Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, are sick of long queues, unending questions, lengthy paperwork, and long delays to visit their homeland or even leave it.
Afghan farmers are opposing a government campaign to eradicate their poppy crops in the southern province of Kandahar.
A new report by Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban describes the territory they control across the country.
Officials, lawmakers, and community leaders in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar have accused neighboring Pakistan of incursions and cross-border attacks
Since their emergence in Afghanistan nearly a quarter-century ago, the Afghan people and the world at large have been perplexed by how to respond to the ragtag Taliban militia determined to rule the country as a hard-line Islamist regime.
Over the past 15 years, Pakistan and Afghanistan have frequently accused one another of sheltering hostile Taliban factions responsible for deadly insurgencies and frequent terrorist attacks in the two neighboring countries.
A bomb disposal squad comb the dusty streets of a southern Afghan city for hidden explosives and booby traps.
A former Afghan spymaster is skeptical that the Islamic State (IS) militants are capable of carrying out complex urban attacks such as the recent deadly assault on a military hospital in the capital, Kabul.
A northwestern Pakistani region dubbed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world” is finally getting some positive press.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban movement is expressing interest in peace talks amid calls for its contact office in Qatar to be closed.
A planned census in Pakistan this month has revived old controversies in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
Following an ongoing wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, the country is once again engaged in a blame game with neighboring Afghanistan.
A renewed row over terrorist sanctuaries between Afghanistan and Pakistan is likely to boost the prospects of terrorists thriving amid seemingly endless blame games and finger-pointing between the two countries.
Home to several secular political movements, the vast mineral-rich province of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan once prided itself on tolerance and diversity as its various religious and ethnic communities lived in harmony.
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