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.
Several journalists have been severely beaten and harassed while reporting on unrest in Islamabad.
The party calling for the dissolution of the government faces dissent within its own ranks.
Thousands of displaced families from the North Waziristan tribal district are reluctant to leave school buildings in the nearby districts of Bannu and Lakki Marwat because of high rents and a lack of government aid.
Demonstrations demanding the dissolution of the Pakistani government have drawn widespread criticism across the country.
A deepening blood feud between the clan of a powerful Afghan provincial security chief and the Taliban has resulted in a series of assassinations in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The next Afghan leader will be taking charge of a country that has evolved remarkably in recent years, but his success will depend on healing the wounds of factionalism and lawlessness.
Politicians, lawyers, and human rights campaigners are opposing a new Pakistani counterterrorism law, arguing that it threatens human rights by granting sweeping powers to security forces.
Weeks after its launch, a Pakistani military offensive in a northwestern region appears to have had little impact on dismantling Taliban and allied extremist groups.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have spoken of a new cooperative relationship to combat terrorism and resilient Taliban insurgencies in the two neighboring countries amid longstanding disagreements and mistrust.
The Taliban organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan are undergoing unprecedented divisions that pose both new opportunities and challenges for the two neighbors battling insurgencies.
Afghanistan's top soldier said conflicting maps of the country’s long and porous eastern border with Pakistan are adding to cross-border tensions between the two countries.
A rift within the top fugitive leaders of Afghanistan's hardline Taliban is seen as having far-reaching consequences for the movement's future and Kabul's efforts to conclude peace with the insurgents.
A quiet, little-know bureaucrat has emerged as Pakistan's point man for concluding peace with the Taliban, whose ruthless decade-old insurgency has killed tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers.
Afghanistan has officially backed Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a move seen as an effort to advance its long-standing irredentist claims over Pashtun regions in neighboring Pakistan.
A break in suspected U.S. drone strikes against Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in northwestern Pakistan appears to be helping Islamabad's efforts to negotiate peace with the insurgents.
As NATO troops wind down more than a decade of combat operations in Afghanistan, it is increasingly likely that some version of political Islam will be central to politics and governance in the country for the foreseeable future.
With General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani leaving after six successful years as Pakistan's Army chief, Islamabad must name his successor. The choice appears to be down to four candidates.
He was one of America's most-wanted terrorists. So his assassination in Pakistan's capital city, where he apparently lived openly and lavishly, instantly raised questions about Islamabad's commitment to the war on terrorism.
As if a stinging election defeat was not enough, the reputation of the Awami National Party (ANP), one of Pakistan's top secular parties, is now being dragged through the mud. The source of the embarrassment is a very public feud involving the party's leading families.
Amid the outcry over the killing of a high-ranking Pakistani Taliban leader, a major NATO supply line running through Pakistan is under threat. A blockade could have a potentially serious impact.
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