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Daud Khattak is a senior international correspondent covering the Near East in RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom. He was previously the managing editor of RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
Pakistan's national security adviser says Islamabad is serious about going after all militant factions operating from its soil.
The new head of Pakistan's premier intelligence agency is seen as focusing on security issues while extracting his organization from the country's messy politics.
Professor Ajmal Khan says he was well-treated during the four years he was held in Waziristan, and vows to continue promoting education in the tribal regions.
The ongoing Pakistani military offensive in North Waziristan appears to be only aimed at dislodging the militant factions involved in attacks in Pakistan, while sparing those attacking neighboring Afghanistan
In what is seen as a major embarrassment for Islamabad, thousands of Pakistani tribespeople have now crossed into Afghanistan in the wake of a major Pakistani military offensive launched in their North Waziristan homeland in mid-June.
Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and the country’s economic hub, is on a knife-edge after London police arrested Altaf Hussain this week.
Intimidation by extremist groups and intelligence agents force Pakistani journalists to self-censor.
A recent failed assassination attempt on one of Pakistan's leading television presenters has triggered a debate over the role of the country's powerful military in manipulating the media and threatening journalists.
Pakistani lawmakers are examining a $1.5 billion grant by Saudi Arabia, which has strengthened the country's currency and reinforced security ties between the two nations.
A recent bomb attack on a Sunni Muslim evangelical mosque in northwestern Pakistan has raised the possibility that the hardline Taliban are now targeting a puritanical Muslim movement.
Seven months after being voted into power for promising reforms, a provincial government in a restive northwestern Pakistani province is falling apart as it fails to improve security and services.
The killing of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud not only presents the Waziristan-based militant group with a serious leadership crisis, but also casts a pall on much-anticipated peace talks with the government.
One of the many religious minorities whose plight is documented in the latest U.S. State Department report on religious freedom is the Ahmadiyya community, or the Ahmadis.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has brought tens of thousands of protesters to Islamabad and vows not to leave until the Pakistani government resigns. Who looks set to gain the most from the confrontation?
Influential Pakistani Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is world famous for his 2010 fatwa against terrorism. Now, he wants to lead a millions-strong march on Islamabad on January 14 to demand clean parliamentary elections.
Washington has placed a $10 million bounty on one of Pakistan's most prominent radical Islamist leaders. But with no charges against him in Pakistan, can the bounty lead to his arrest?
For six weeks, Pakistan has blocked NATO supply trucks from entering Afghanistan. Now, as Islamabad looks to reset ties with NATO, there is still no certainty about when the border will reopen.
Thousands of truck drivers have found themselves stuck in the road in Pakistan. But it's not road conditions that are preventing them from crossing into Afghanistan to deliver their cargos, it's politics.
Instead of focusing on the real issue confronting Pakistan, the media and political leaders create hype to arouse anger among the general public and divert attention from the real issue: Who has been managing Pakistan's policy with respect to Afghanistan?
The recent wave of street battles in Karachi, which killed 120 people this month, seems to have subsided, for now. The way it did tells a lot about its causes.
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