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.
In the two years of its existence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater, the Islamic State (IS) militants have attempted to materialize their grand ambition of recreating the Khorasan province of their global Islamist empire.
The likely reopening of a major trade route with Afghanistan has brought joy to North Waziristan, a beleaguered tribal district in northwestern Pakistan.
Islamic State (IS) militants are trying to foment a war between Afghanistan’s majority Sunnis and minority Shi’ite Muslims, who have largely avoided a sectarian conflict.
A group of veiled Pakistani women protest in their country’s northwestern city of Peshawar.
Welcome to the first episode of the Gandhara Podcast. Our aim is to bring you informed perspectives and engaging discussions on pressing issues and the latest developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan and Pakistan figured prominently on the foreign policy agendas of two U.S. presidents during the past 16 years.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could change the fate of a Pakistani man.
Lawmakers in an eastern Afghan province reeling from atrocities and attacks by the Islamic State (IS) are worried over the ultra-radical group’s strength for more than a year in the face of a relentless Afghan military operation.
Until recently, the southern Afghan province of Kandahar was seen as an oasis of security and stability amid a Taliban onslaught that saw the hard-line militants overrunning large swaths of neighboring provinces.
A new generation of Afghan activists is trying to end exploitative customs that often result in lifelong pain and misery for women and their families among the region’s Pashtun clans.
A senior Afghan security official says his forces will fight to take back most of the territories lost to the Taliban in Afghanistan’s largest province.
The Afghan Taliban are facing unprecedented internal struggles and external pressures amid their biggest military push to seize the country.
The youth in a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are determined to rebuild their lives and strive for their rights after suffering years of terrorist brutality and displacement.
A new book about Pakistan’s premier spy service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, portrays an organization working to preserve military dominance while both fighting and fomenting insurgencies.
Thousands of families have fled while tens of thousands more face worsening conditions as Afghan forces and the Taliban fight over a key provincial capital in northern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials point to systemic weaknesses within the government forces as the main reason for the Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan’s largest province, Helmand.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban insurgents have criticized an Afghan Islamist leader for concluding a peace deal with the government in Kabul.
A recent suicide attack on a mosque in northwestern Pakistan that killed 36 worshippers, mostly teenagers, has left grief and agony in its wake and generated anger at the government’s failure to help the victims.
Indian support for a simmering separatist struggle in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan is unlikely to radically alter the conflict in the resource-rich and strategically located restive region.
A separatist faction in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has called on India to intervene in the simmering conflict in the region. In 1971, Bangladesh emerged after Indian forces defeated the Pakistani military to end a gruesome civil war.
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