Daud Khattak is the managing editor of RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal. He is based in Prague and reports on social, political, and security issues in Pakistan.
In an interview career diplomat Richard G. Olson weighs in on whether there is hope for salvaging the now-troubled relations between the two countries.
Michael Kugelman assesses what lies ahead for relations between Islamabad and Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump said his country received “lies and deceit” after giving Pakistan more than $33 billion in assistance since 9/11.
A Pakistani political party that once promised to cleanse the upper echelons of government from corruption is now falling apart over graft allegations among the members of its provincial administration.
RFE/RL’s Gandhara website has obtained some details of the gruesome murder of a 12-year-old girl killed over maligning her family’s honor by reportedly eloping with a young man last month.
A 12-year-old Pakistani girl was killed by her family after she eloped with a boy, according to accounts by villagers and officials in the northwestern tribal district of Khyber.
To enter Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border is like entering a legal "black hole" where residents have little political representation or constitutional protection owing to colonial-era laws. But a new plan aims both to bring modern justice to the restive region and to dissuade residents from joining with militants.
An outcry has erupted in Pakistan over a country-wide antiterrorism operation that minority Pashtuns say targets their community for harassment and "ethnic profiling."
Cumbersome mandatory Pakistani security clearances are preventing thousands of immigrant workers from visiting their families in the country’s restive western tribal areas.
Members of Pashtun clans in Pakistan and Afghanistan are anxious ahead of this week's Muslim festival, Eid al-Fitr. They are wondering whether they will be able to visit friends and families amid the ongoing acrimony between the two countries, which prompted Islamabad to attempt strict border controls.
Pakistani authorities are asking a Pashtun tribe to pay for Taliban attacks before being allowed to return to their war-ravaged villages.
As U.S. President Barack Obama wrapped up his visit to India, neighboring Pakistan has questioned the high-profile trip.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has asked the government to publicize the names of all of the militant groups it has outlawed for their roles in the violence that has killed more than 50,000 Pakistanis during the past decade.
A provincial government in Pakistan that once championed negotiations with the Taliban has now announced hefty rewards for hunting hundreds of fugitive Islamist militants.
A series of recent successful counterterrorism operations are being attributed to the renewed cooperation between Pakistan and the United States.
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.
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