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.
The residents of a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are attempting to rebuild their homeland after enduring years of terrorist tyranny and displacement by military operations.
Pakistan’s powerful military says it is investigating the reported beating of highway police officials by army officers who were allegedly enraged after cops gave them tickets for violating traffic laws.
A leading Western scholar of Afghanistan says Pakistan is now exaggerating its control over the Afghan Taliban to win concessions and be seen as holding a key to resolving the conflict in their country.
For decades, Islamabad largely ignored the free flow of insurgents, refugees, and weapons across its western border with Afghanistan. But its ongoing efforts to control the border are unlikely to help Afghanistan as it reels from a resilient Taliban insurgency that Kabul claims is orchestrated by Islamabad
Residents of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, have urged Kabul to swiftly move to end their city’s nearly four-month siege by the Taliban, who have made significant gains in recent weeks.
Many Afghans who recently left Pakistan because of police brutality and government pressure are now discovering their war-torn homeland is not welcoming, either.
The killing of a generation of lawyers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in a suicide attack has paused the wheels of justice in the vast region reeling from separatist and Islamist violence and a harsh military crackdown.
Afghan government mistakes and weaknesses have aided the Taliban’s advances in Helmand. This key province in southern Afghanistan is central to the insurgents’ drive to return to power.
Afghan forces are trying to hold off a Taliban offensive that has effectively besieged the capital of Afghanistan’s largest province.
In the wake of one of this year’s most devastating attacks on civilians in Pakistan, critics and politicians are once again questioning Islamabad’s counterterrorism policies.
The Taliban have cut off a major highway to Lashkar Gah, the besieged capital of the restive southern province of Helmand where insurgents claims to have made significant advances recently.
The Islamic State extensively used schools, mosques, and civilian homes as their dug-in positions in regions where they established control though intimidation and extreme violence.
Tentative peace has returned to a mountainous valley in eastern Afghanistan that was once the venue of some of the most iconic battles of the current phase of the Afghan war.
Nearly a year after the Taliban’s brief capture of a city in northern Afghanistan attracted attention to their insurgency’s strength, they are recruiting young religious students to recapture Kunduz.
Pakistani rights campaigners are opposing a draft cybersecurity law after a legislative panel adopted it for discussion in the upper house of parliament.
Afghan forces are claiming that they have recaptured a remote district in eastern Afghanistan that served as a stronghold for Islamic State militants.
A former Afghan insurgent commander was buried with official honors despite fighting against successive regimes for more than three decades.
Three annual poppy harvests in Afghanistan’s most dangerous province are creating a bonanza for the Taliban, helping to boost their war coffers as they engage in one of their most violent annual campaigns.
A controversial Afghan lawmaker has questioned government claims of progress against the Islamic State.
War, neglect, and plunder are threatening one of Afghanistan’s most important archeological monuments with being devoured by muddy river waters.
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