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.
Women in Pakistan are working hard to avoid being left out of the May 11 elections. RFE/RL reports on how women in one restive, northwest province are putting their stamp on the campaign.
Fisticuffs, kicking, shoe-throwing -- sparks fly whenever supporters turn up to cheer Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf as he fights numerous court cases.
The Pashtun music industry is faced with a new, digital, menace that threatens the livelihood of thousands of singers, producers, and retailers.
Pakistan's Taliban factions are acting on threats to target secular politicians, and there has been a clear effect. Many secularists have stopped campaigning openly and are calling on the government to do more to protect them.
Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf was officially taken out of the running for the country's upcoming general elections on April 16, when an appeals court rejected his candidacy in a remote northwest district.
Some 200 years after the first railroads began operating in Europe, Afghanistan is looking to develop it first railway network. RFE/RL looks at the importance, and challenges, of connecting the country by rail.
Pakistan's parliamentary elections on May 11 are important because they will determine the shape of a new national government amid economic uncertainty and growing rifts about the country's future.
With general elections just around the corner in Pakistan, politicians in independence-minded Balochistan Province are weighing the benefits and risks of participating.
China wants to turn Pakistan's port of Gwadar, located in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, into a regional trade hub and possible naval facility. Islamabad sees the potential to improve the local economy and mood of the province's inhabitants. Many Baluchis, however, see an effort to sink their separatist aims.
After enjoying a peaceful existence in southwestern Pakistan for more than a century, a tiny Shi'ite community finds itself caught up in a broader regional conflict.
Pakistan's inability to stop a hard-line Sunni faction from systematically killing Shi'ite Muslims has put its determination to act in question.
Recent bloodshed in a remote Pashtun region of Pakistan has thrust a little-known Islamist militia into the spotlight. RFE/RL profiles Ansar ul-Islam and the origins of the banned group's fight for influence against the most hard-line and violent Taliban faction in Pakistan.
A Pakistani province is legislating to ban an ancient tribal custom that entitles a man to force his marriage proposal on a woman. The custom, called ghagh, can ruin a woman's life by limiting her marriage prospects or leading to long family feuds.
Lawyers and police officers in northwestern Pakistan say a man sentenced to death this week for blasphemy may still challenge his conviction.
The Haqqani network has formally been identified as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, but observers see few signs that the group's safe haven in Pakistan will be disturbed.
Pakistan's military chief and the country's chief justice have issued hard-hitting statements highlighting tensions between the increasingly emboldened judiciary and the long-dominant military.
A classmate and friend of Malala Yousafzai who was shot alongside the Pakistani teen peace activist has returned to school with a strengthened resolve to receive an education.
Doctors in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province are under the gun -- literally, with dozens of doctors having been killed or kidnapped in the restive region in recent years. Now they say they've had enough, and have been on strike for the past two weeks to get local authorities to do more to protect them.
A comprehensive peace settlement with the Taliban was once touted as the lasting solution to the Afghan crisis. As international forces look to exit in 2014, however, numerous setbacks have put that process on hold.
Kabul has "rejected" recent comments by a U.S. envoy regarding the contentious Durand Line, which Washington and other states consider the official border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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