Majeed Babar is a Prague-based correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
A raid by the Pakistani Taliban into the remote northwestern district of Chitral surprised many. Experts see the incursion as a Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) effort to control territory to further boost its expanding insurgency in Pakistan.
Nestled in the mountains of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the poverty-stricken village of Bandli is a center of militancy and disenchantment that fuels dreams of escape.
After seeing their livelihoods and homes washed away by torrential monsoons and epic flooding, millions in Pakistan are coming to grips with the grim realities of climate change.
Scores of Afghan journalists took refuge in neighboring Pakistan as it became clear the Taliban was not going to live up to its pledge to allow free media. But after a year of living in limbo, nearly 200 of those journalists claim they are getting no help in their efforts to find a permanent home.
Faisal Sultan, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special adviser on national health services, spoke to Radio Mashaal about the country’s plans to vaccinate a majority of its estimated 220 million population.
A lockdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has destroyed most of this year’s honey crop in Pakistan while hitting beekeepers and traders with millions of dollars in losses.
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated tourism in an alpine valley of northwestern Pakistan that had barely recovered from years of Taliban control and the military operations that displaced the region’s entire population a decade ago.
Thousands of disabled miners in Shangla, a picturesque but impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, are struggling to survive amid neglect and a lack of assistance.
Many families in Shangla, an impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, have lost loved ones to mining accidents, while others struggle to look after those who were injured or who suffer from diseases caused by harsh working conditions.
Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor hopes her rise will be a source of hope for her long-oppressed community.
A burgeoning sanctuary of radical jihadists has quietly grown along Pakistan’s eastern border with India as Islamabad’s counterterrorism efforts largely concentrate on the country’s western border regions with Afghanistan.
A Pakistani man kidnapped by the Islamic State group in Afghanistan recounts his suffering at the hands of the extremist faction known for executing prisoners.
Pakistan's recent pronouncement to ban two long-time allied Islamist militant groups active in India and Afghanistan has been questioned.
Burnt out homes, destroyed fields, and shattered livelihoods await Pashtun tribespeople from the Tirah Valley who are returning home from Peshawar after intense fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban last year forced them to flee.
Negotiators said the both the Pakistani government and the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) consider the release of prisoners a priority issue, and are expected to agree on terms soon.
Pakistan's transgender community recently has won legal battles that bolster their basic rights. But during the past week the community in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar has been targeted by a wave of violence aimed at driving them from their homes.
Two days after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked southwestern Pakistan, survivors are digging through rubble in a search for food and supplies.
