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.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated support for long-awaited reforms that might see the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merge into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
An advocacy group campaigning for promoting women’s rights in Afghanistan says violence against women is on the rise in the country.
A battle in a remote district in southern Afghanistan is likely to shape the future of the struggle for the country’s largest province.
The families of four social media bloggers in Pakistan had a respite when their loved ones returned home after vanishing for nearly three weeks last month.
Officials in a restive southern Afghan province say disparate fighters associated with the Islamic State (IS) militants have now established training camps in remote mountains.
Islamabad is set to initiate new legislation that would merge the country’s restive northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Convicted drug dealers, murders, rapists, and insurgents are locked away in Afghanistan’s biggest prison, secured behind massive iron gates and surrounded by tall walls lined with barbed wire.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has told Pakistan’s powerful army chief that the militants responsible for recent high-profile attacks in Afghanistan are living and operating with impunity in Pakistan.
A tiny Shi’ite minority survived years of siege and relentless militant attacks by taking up guns to defend their picturesque homeland in northwest Pakistan.
James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general nominated to be the next U.S. defense secretary, plans to provide incentives to Islamabad to go against militant groups operating from its soil.
For over three decades, current Afghan First Vice President General Rashid Dostum has been a fixture on the Afghan political and military scene.
Afghan lawmakers have begun an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s rapidly disappearing forests.
In his new year message to the Afghan leadership, Pakistan’s new army chief has pledged to work for peace with the neighboring country.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say strongmen and community leaders have grabbed nearly two-thirds of all government land in the region.
While some Taliban leaders are apparently active in southern Afghanistan, there is no definitive proof that the entire insurgent chain of command now operates from within Afghanistan.
Russia is jostling for a new role in Afghanistan following the end of NATO’s combat mission in the country at the end of 2014.
Afghans have denounced the recent public execution of a university student by the insurgent from the hard-line Taliban movement.
North Waziristan residents say the region is now militant-free and a tenuous peace has returned to towns and villages where civilians were tormented by suicide bombings and assassinations, Pakistani military counterterrorism sweeps, and U.S. drone strikes targeting militant leaders.
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