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.
Two impoverished Pakistani provinces are increasingly uneasy over the nearly $50 billion in Chinese investments being manipulated to serve the dominant eastern province of Punjab.
Pakistan's Ahmadi religious minority have complained of oppression with community members being murdered and victims of systematic discrimination and alienation.
The former head of Afghan intelligence says the emergence of Islamic State is mere psychological warfare.
Pakistan is under mounting pressure from Gulf Arab nations to join their war against the Houthi fighters in Yemen after Islamabad declared neutrality in the conflict.
An old hand in Afghan affairs see the country's hardline Taliban divided over the prospects of peace talks after more than a decade of violence.
As Pakistan winds down a nearly yearlong military operation in a northwestern tribal district, a key Afghan militant network it once nurtured is poised to reestablish itself there.
In a sign that the Taliban are expected to retain a powerful presence in a restive Pakistani region, a senior militant commander claims to have negotiated successfully with Islamabad.
A new English translation presents the work of a master poet who has inspired millions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
An Afghan strongman has threatened to sue a global rights watchdog for accusing him of grave abuses in its latest report on Afghanistan.
Islamic State militants have emerged in a sensitive northeastern province next to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
A complicated and thorny agenda awaits the Taliban and Afghanistan's government as they are reportedly ready to begin direct peace talks early next month.
A parliamentary vote to elect members to the upper house of the Pakistani Parliament is being criticized because some lawmakers appear ready to cast their ballots to the highest bidder.
Nearly a year after embarking on ending Afghanistan's decades-old conflict, China appears to have made substantial progress toward a diplomatic breakthrough.
Human rights campaigners have praised a new Pakistani initiative aimed at addressing the abuse of the country's draconian blasphemy law.
Beijing appears to be ready to finance a series of projects to foster cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In a sign of a budding power struggle, a regional strongman in western Afghanistan has engaged in public bickering with the Afghan government still struggling to balance competing interests.
The author of a new book says Islamist militancy is testing the resilient relationship between Beijing and Islamabad.
A recent White House characterization of the Afghan Taliban as armed insurgents raised the question of whether the hardline Islamists are considered terrorists.
Politicians from two impoverished Pakistani provinces have opposed alleged changes to a major road and rail network linking China to the Arabian Sea through Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities have moved against shops selling jihadist propaganda in a southwestern city considered a key sanctuary for the Afghan Taliban.
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